Beatrix Marion Sturt

Beatrix Marion Sturt (21 November 1849 – 28 April 1944) was a British writer who contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Beatrix Sturt as a child in an 1853 painting, pictured with her brothers Francis Montagu Muirhead and Herbert Hugh Muirhead

Beatrix Marion Muirhead was born in Hastings, England, in 1849.^[1][2][3] Her father was the Scottish lawyer James Patrick Muirhead.^[4]

In 1876, she married Napier George Sturt, an Australian-born colonel, in Thame, England.^[1][2][5] The couple had three children.^[1]

After being widowed in 1901, she settled for a period in Llanfrynach, in Wales. There, she became active in home-front fundraising efforts during World War I. She was also a vocal advocate for women's suffrage.^[1]

Sturt's primary legacy is as a biographer, including of her father-in-law, the Australian explorer Charles Sturt.^[1][6] Her flattering 1899 biography of him is titled The Life of Charles Sturt.^[5][7] She also contributed several entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, under the initials B.M.S. and B.N.S.^[8]

She spent the majority of her later years in Bewdley, England, where she died in 1944 at age 95.^[1][3][9]