BINYON (neé DOCKRAY), Mary

Mary Dockray (1839-1919) was born at Birmingham on 4th September 1839, the eldest of five children of Robert Benson Dockray, a civil engineer, and his wife, Mary Caroline (née Pearson).  Her father built the Oxford to Cambridge railway line and the Roundhouse engine shed near Euston Station.   

On 21st June 1866, Mary married the Reverend Frederick Binyon at St Mary, Lancaster.  They had eight sons and one daughter, four of whom died in infancy:  John Frederick known as Jack (1868-1936), Robert Laurence known as Laurence (1869-1943), Alfred George (1870-1871), Francis Dockray known as Frank (1871), Lucy Caroline (1873-1879), Charles Arthur (1874-1963), Edward Reginald (1875-1876), Herbert (1877-1877) and Gilbert Clive (1880-1952).  

Following the death of her husband in 1900, Mary was to be found boarding at 137 Walton Street, Oxford, described as “living on own means”.

Mary Binyon died at 279 Iffley Road, Oxford, on 2nd September 1919.