Jane began teaching English to the
senior class at Miss Edgar's School in Montreal. She died of cancer in 1957.
Because I associate Prof. Holbourne more with Jane than with anyone else in the family I am putting this page in next to those on Jane who visited him and his wife and sons in Penkaet Castle during her years in Oxford. Geof. Dale supplied me with the following:
March 24
1984
PROFESSOR HOLBOURNE
Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourne was a great friend of my father's at Oxford and later. He used to visit us twice yearly on his trips between his teaching post at a mid-western university (I think Illinois) where he lectured on architecture and his home just south of Edinburgh.
He was of a prosperous family of tea merchants in London, partly Jewish, of
which he was very proud. His mother was a Scot, and ``Uncle'' Bernard, in his
own mind, became very scottish. He purchased the Island of 
Foula north of the Shetlands where he was
the Laird for many years and his wife was the mainstay of the Island economy,
organizing cottage industry and selling the resulting artifacts on the mainland.
The Holbourne's home south of Edinburgh was an ancient castle (Penkaet) which ``Uncle'' Bernard had gutted and refitted to his taste and filled with items which he had picked up in his travels: e.g., a circular staircase from a much grander castle which was being destroyed; a Spanish chest from one of the Armada ships wrecked on the north coast of Ireland.
He was an eccentric in manner and dress --- wore a cape secured with a heavy silver snake that he had picked up in inland China in the 1980's, a massive soft bow tie and a very wide brimmed felt hat --- all dark green. When in Scotland he wore ``the kilt'' (none of your short pull-on skirts but yards of tartan cloth wound round and round, the end flung over one shoulder and the whole thing controlled with a massive silver brooch.).
He was a consummate storyteller with an intimate knowledge of mythology: Greek, Scots and Norse. This made him a great favorite of children wherever he went.
Among other things, he was a survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania, and adopted a little girl whose life he saved on that occasion.
I can remember that we particularly enjoyed his imitations of music-hall routines on his visits to us.
He had two sons, one of whom became an engineer, the other a naval architect and well-known yachtsman.
The following is the Obituary which appeared in The Gazette following Jane's
death on July 6
1957: (She is buried in the Magog cemetary next to her
parents)
MRS C. BRYSON Mrs Christopher Bryson died Saturday at the Ross Memorial Pavilion of the Royal Victoria Hospital.Mrs Bryson, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice E. E. Howard and the late Evelyn Peverley, was born in Montreal and educated at Trafalgar School for Girls, McGill University, and Somerville College, Oxford.
In 1932, she married Mr. Bryson who was then in the Indian Civil Service. On his retirement from India in 1947 they returned to Montreal.
She was president of the Children's Library, N.D.G. Community Council, and the Trafalgar Old Girls' Association. She held office in the Guild and W.M.S. of Knox Crescent and Kensington Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Montreal Elgar Choir and president-elect of the Canadian Association of Reading Clubs in Montreal. During the past year she taught English at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School.
She is survived by her husband and three sons, David, Nicholas and John; and by three sisters, Mrs. John S. Saunders, Gondola Point, N.B.; Mrs. Campbell Merrett, Senneville; and Mrs. P. W. Rolleston, Radley, England.
Funeral will be held July 9
at 4:40 p.m. from Knox Crescent and Kensington Presbyterian Church.
CHRISTOPHER LENWOOD BRYSON, born in 1908 the eldest son of Rev. Arnold and Norah Bryson of the London Missionary Society in Tsangchow, Hopei, North China. At age 8 Chris was sent to London to be educated. He lived with Frank Lenwood (his mother's brother) and his wife Gertrude (``Auntie Gertie''). He was at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1927 to 1931 and in 1932, through open competitive exams entered the Indian Civil Service. After a year of ``probation'' in Oxford he served in India from 1933 to 1947, in which year he was awarded an O.B.E. When he and Jane and the three sons came to Canada Chris taught first at Bishops' College School, Lennoxville, and then at Lower Canada College, N.D.G., Montreal. They lived on Beaconsfield Ave. After Jane died Chris married Marjorie (Doble) Ballon (?) She has two sons.
His brother ARTHUR (no 2 son) was Trinity College, Cambridge and London Hospital. He earned his F.R.C.S. (Lond.) and in 1934 went to Tientsin, North China, as Missionary Doctor. During the war he was interned by the Japs. in Shanghai. In 1945 he was engaged by U.K. Colonial Office to work in Nigeria where he founded the famous hospital at Kano. Later he returned to London as an Orthopaedic Consultant until 1977. In 1949 he was awarded an O.B.E.
The youngest brother DAVID (b.1914, d.1979 of a stroke) was Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he took a double first. He won a Commonwealth Scholarship to the U.S. (Chicago and Berkeley). Joined the B.B.C. where he ran a program for Asian Immigrants.
Jane's South Home was built in 1923 by Daddy's brother-in-law, Bert Solomon, for his men when he was building the farm buildings. Uncle Bert lived in Granby and was a lumber merchant. We girls shingled it. It bacame Jane's retreat. It was here one summer that she wrote her epic poem (about what I can't remember). And it was here too that she used to experiment on mental telepathy with the help of the Twins.