Mavis Guzelian, née Altounyan (1920-1998)

This material is held atCardiff University Archives / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Reference
- GB 1239 462/11
Dates of Creation
- 1935
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 1 volume

Scope and Content

Daughter of Dora and Ernest Altounyan.

Administrative / Biographical History

Born in Aleppo, Syria, Mavis later studied at Chelsea School of Art under Henry Moore, interrupted by a war-time stint working for a news agency in Jerusalem. She married Melkon Guzelian, a refugee from Armenia whom she had met in Syria while helping run the hospital founded by her grandfather.

Archive Record|Table of contents

W. G. Collingwood (1854-1932) family archive462

Correspondence462/1

William Collingwood (1819-1903)462/2

Marie Collingwood, née Imhoff (1826-1873)462/3

Cuthbert Collingwood (1826-1908)462/4

Sophia Ruth Collingwood (1856-1937)462/5

William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932)462/6

James Isaac (1796-1855)462/7

Mary Prentice (1821-1835)462/8

Edith Mary (Dorothy) Collingwood, née Isaac (1857-1928)462/9

Dora Altounyan, née Collingwood (1886-1964)462/10

Mavis Guzelian, née Altounyan (1920-1998)462/11

Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943)462/12

Ursula Luard-Selby, née Collingwood (1891-1962)462/13

Barbara Crystal Gnosspelius, née Collingwood (1887-1961)462/14

Adolf Jonathan Gnosspelius (1807-1883)462/15

Eliza Gnosspelius, née Heron (1811-1871)462/16

George Townsend (1807?-1840)462/17

Amelia Gnosspelius, née Townsend (1844-1930)462/18

Oscar Theodore Gnosspelius (1878-1953)462/19

Minna Gnosspelius (1839-1874)462/20

Dora Gnosspelius (1841-1868)462/21

Ada Gnosspelius (1847-1930)462/22

Hilda Townsend Gnosspelius (1876-1939)462/23

Janet Gnosspelius (1926-2010)462/24

Family history research conducted by Janet Gnosspelius462/25

Photographs - unattributed ownership462/26

Postcards462/27

Ephemera and pamphlets462/28

Unattributed possessions462/29

Prints, 1785-1998462/30

Mixed and unattributed artworks, 1870-1950462/31