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Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) and Rosa Mary Menpes (1855-1936) had seven daughters and two sons. The family included Maud Rose Goodwin (1878-1958), Mortimer James (1879-1900), Dorothy Whistler (1883-1973), Walter (1886-1945), and Claude (1892-1963). The etching The Menpes Children [300] probably includes Maud and Dorothy, and just possibly the Menpes's fourth child, Walter (1886-1945). Their older son, Mortimer James Menpes, is not shown.

Master Menpes, Menpes 1904, repr. f.p. 88

This watercolour almost certainly shows the Menpes's fourth child, Walter Mortimer Menpes, born on 21 September 1886. In 1939 Walter married Joan Miller-Davis (1910-1945), and they had one son, Michael Mortimer Menpes; both parents died in 1945, and Michael, in 1993.