JEREMY TREGLOWN,
Madam, - I am writing an authorised biography of V.S. Pritchett (1900-97), to be published by Chatto & Windus. Pritchett was Dublin correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor for a time from 1923, and wrote a good deal about Ireland in his fiction and memoirs, as well as in a book about Dublin.
In 1924, Pritchett married a young Anglo-Irish woman, Evelyn Vigors, daughter of Major Philip Vigors and Hyacinth Vigors (née D'Arcy). The marriage took place at 2 Elgin Road, Dublin - then the address of Alexander H. Porter and the Hon Frances Porter. It lasted for 12 years. The couple travelled widely, and eventually settled in England, but in the mid-1920s they were at various addresses in Dublin, including 28 Pembroke Street and 44 Waterloo Road.
In 1936 they were divorced, and both soon remarried: Victor, to Dorothy Roberts (later Lady Pritchett, who died last year); Evelyn, to a Donald E. Maxwell. There were no children from the first marriage, but Evelyn had at least one child by her second, Andrew N. Maxwell. He was born in London in 1937 but if he is still alive, I have not been able to trace him.
May I use the courtesy of your columns to ask whether any of your readers have memories of, or other kinds of information about, Evelyn Vigors, beyond what is available in Who's Who and the standard genealogies?
Any help will be gratefully acknowledged. - Yours, etc.,
JEREMY TREGLOWN, 102 Savernake Road, London NW3 2JR.