Beatrix Marion Sturt
Beatrix Marion Sturt was a British writer who contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.
Beatrix Marion Muirhead was born in Hastings, England, in 1849. Her father was the Scottish lawyer James Patrick Muirhead.
In 1876, she married Napier George Sturt, an Australia
After being widowed in 1901, she settled for a period in Llanfrynach, in Wales. There, she became active in home-front fundraising efforts during World War I. She was also a vocal advocate for women's suffrage.
Sturt's primary legacy is as a biographer, including of her father-in-law, the Australian explorer Charles Sturt. Her flattering 1899 biography of him is titled The Life of Charles Sturt. She also contributed several entries to the Dictionary of National Biography, under the initials B.M.S. and B.N.S.
She spent the majority of her later years in Bewdley, England, where she died in 1944 at age 95.