Daughter of Sir George E. Paget, Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge. Married to Charles Smart Roy, Professor of Pathology, University of Cambridge
Website of Friends of Mill Road Cemetery history reads:
'Violet and her (twin sister Rose – presumed) were the seventh and eighth children born to George Edward and Clara Paget. She and Rose were baptised in the parish of Mary the Less on April 13th 1860. She was brought up in St Peter’s Terrace which is very close to the original Addenbrookes hospital building on Trumpington Street, Cambridge. She married Charles Smart Roy in 1887 in Conway. When Charles died unexpectedly and suddenly during an epileptic fit in 1897 she was left with many debts. She was befriended by Mary Kingsley and for some time worked as a kind of personal secretary for her. In 1901 she married James Henly Batty. In the 1911 census Batty is described as an African Merchant. Mary Kingsley had met him on her first voyage to West Africa. She died on 11th September 1924 and her ashes are buried with her first husband. The funeral notice states that "she desired to send cordial greetings to all her friends."‘
Dawson Turner was born and spent much of his life at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. He was admitted as an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1793, but returned to Yarmouth before graduating, in order to take his place in the family banking business.
For some years Turner's chief interest was botany, particularly mosses, and he published several works on the subject and corresponded with many of the notable botanists of his day. In later life he concentrated on antiquarian pursuits, amassing a valuable collection of historical documents and autographs, as well as a substantial library which was eventually dispersed in a series of sales. He was a Fellow of various learned bodies, including the Royal Society, the Linnaean Society, and the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1796 Turner married Mary Palgrave, by whom he had eight surviving children. Mary Turner and her daughters were talented amateur artists; they were tutored in drawing by John Sell Cotman and also mastered the arts of etching and lithography. Between them they produced a significant number of sketches and prints, especially portraits and architectural studies, examples of which were often used by their father to embellish his books.