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Their only child, Mathew Prichard, was born in 1943. A year later, Rosalind's husband died in the Battle of Normandy. [4] She remarried in 1949, to lawyer Anthony Arthur Hicks (26 September 1916 — 15 April 2005) [5] at Kensington, London, England. [6] They lived in the Greenway Estate until Rosalind's death on 28 October 2004, in Torbay, aged ...
They had three children: Lydia Diana Williams (née Prichard; 17 April 1906 – 15 October 1982). She married Elydr Gwyn Williams (20 October 1905 — 8 November 1980). Major Hubert de Burr Prichard (14 May 1907 – 16 August 1944). He married Rosalind Hicks, [4] [5] only child of the author Agatha Christie, in 1940.
Fannie R. Givens (née Hicks; May 29, 1861 (sources vary re year and place of birth) – August 4, 1947) was an artist, missionary, and political activist. Mainly a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, she created and taught art in many forms including painting and poetry and served as a policewoman for the city.
The house was occupied by Christie and Mallowan until their deaths in 1976 and 1978 respectively, and featured, under various guises, in several of Christie's novels. Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks and her husband Anthony lived in the house from 1968 until Rosalind's death in 2004. The house in July 2008, under restoration
It is said that he was a judge; however, his death notice in The Law Times journal described him as a barrister. [1] His mother was Ellen Ruth "Peg" Coates, who is often mentioned in her daughter-in-law (Agatha)'s autobiography. Peg was born in Portumna, Ireland in 1862. Her father was Dr Samuel Coates (died 1879). [2]
Colonel Hubert Cecil Prichard came to live at Pwllywrach after the First World War. His son Hubert de Burgh Prichard famously married Rosalind Hicks, the only daughter of Agatha Christie, their son Mathew Prichard being given the proceeds from the royalties of The Mousetrap. He subsequently used the substantial sums from the play to establish ...
Following Hicks' death in 2004, a new production of the play, starring Jenny Seagrove and Honeysuckle Weeks and produced by Bill Kenwright, was to open in London's West End on 14 December 2009. Kenwright described the play as "brutal and incredibly honest" and "It's a good enough play to stand up without the Christie brand.
The Reverend Leonard Clement, the vicar of St Mary Mead, narrates the story. He lives with his much younger wife Griselda and their nephew Dennis. Colonel Lucius Protheroe, Clement's churchwarden, is a wealthy, abrasive man who also serves as the local magistrate, and is widely disliked in the village. At dinner one evening, Clement offhandedly ...