Kate Muriel Mason Eadie RMS ARBSA (4 May 1880[1] – 8 November 1945) was a British jeweller[2] and craftswoman[3] in Birmingham, working in the Arts and Crafts style.[2]

Kate Muriel Mason Eadie
RMS ARBSA
Born(1880-05-04)4 May 1880
Died8 November 1945(1945-11-08) (aged 65)
NationalityBritish
EducationBirmingham School of Art
Occupation(s)Jeweller, stained-glass designer
StyleArts and Crafts
SpouseSidney Meteyard

Eadie was born to Richard William Eadie (1851–1920) and Fanny Sophia Eadie, née Mason (1857–1938). In September 1940, she married the Birmingham Pre-Raphaelite painter Sidney Meteyard,[4][5] whom she met when she studied at Birmingham School of Art,[5] having modelled for many of his pictures,[4][5] including the drawing Jasmine.[6] They worked together on stained glass.[7]

A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as fire screens.[3]

In 1915, she was elected an associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists,[2] with whom she had exhibited a case of jewellery in 1908–1909, a processional cross in 1909, and another case of jewellery in 1911.[2]

At one time, she lived at The Malthouse, Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester, Warwickshire, with her sisters, [citation needed] and with Meteyard.

She died on 8 November 1945.[8][9] She is buried in Brandwood End Cemetery, Birmingham.

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  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ a b c d "Miss Kate Muriel Mason Eadie". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. University of Glasgow. 2011. Archived from the original on 26 June 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. ^ a b "University of Birmingham". Antiques Roadshow. Series 23. Episode 12. 2000. BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Kate Eadie Arts and Crafts Suffragette Necklace Amethyst Silver and Enamel". Collectors Weekly. 2012. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "An Arts and Crafts citrine necklace by Kate Eadie". Bonhams. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 26 June 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Jasmine by Sidney Harold Meteyard". Victorian Web. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  7. ^ Ripley, Paul (7 April 1947). "Obituary of Sidney Harold Meteyard". The Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2024 – via Art Renewal Center.
  8. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar 1946
  9. ^ "A silver Arts & Crafts moonstone pendant". Sworders. Archived from the original on 26 June 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2013. A silver Arts & Crafts moonstone pendant attributed to Kate Eadie, c.1910...
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