Pearl Binder

The Right Honourable
The Lady Elwyn-Jones
Born
Pearl Binder

(1904-06-28)28 June 1904
Salford, England
Died25 January 1990(1990-01-25) (aged 85)
Brighton, England
NationalityBritish
EducationCentral School of Art and Design
Known forWriting, illustration
Spouse
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(m. 1937; died 1989)​

Pearl Binder, Baroness Elwyn-Jones (pronounced /ˈbaɪndə/;[1] 28 June 1904 – 25 January 1990)[2][3] was a British writer, illustrator, stained-glass artist, lithographer, sculptor and a champion of the Pearly Kings and Queens.

Binder was a well-known character who had a lifelong fascination with the East End of London, where she settled in the 1920s. In 1974, she became Lady Elwyn-Jones, when her husband, the politician and lawyer Elwyn Jones, was appointed Lord Chancellor and made a life peer, taking the title Baron Elwyn-Jones.[4]

  1. ^ Plomley, Roy and Elwyn-Jones, Lord Frederick (17 February 1984). Desert Island Discs: Lord Elwyn-Jones. BBC. Event occurs at 38:24. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Pearl Binder", BFI.org.uk; accessed 11 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Death of Lady Elwyn-Jones". Glasgow Herald. 27 January 1990. p. 5. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Binder, Pearl". Horniman Museum and Gardens. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2017.