A ‘work in progress’ family history website starting from an Archer family of South Oxford, who were freemen, brewers, haulage contractors, and first ‘Archer & Co’ then ‘Archer Cowley & Co’ furniture removers in the 19th and 20th Centuries, inter alia, to whom are linked by marriage the Penfolds and Wells of Southwark and Surrey, the Reeds of Devon, the Gilders of Oxford and Hinckley, the Morgans of Petworth, Sussex, the Garners of Middleton, Lancs and many others. There are connections via Phil and the present generation (born 1930s/40s) with a patent law firm known as "UD&L" with motor-racing and Scottish antecedents.
Here is the text of the Guardian’s obituary on 17th January 1991. The ‘Gray’s Elegy’ illustrations do indeed seem to be a high point in her wood-engraving career. What a wonderfully simple life she led. Total dedication to her art, apparently. And her cousin Gwen Archer, my mother, though involved in the complexities of family life, was similarly dedicated to her ‘art’, which in Gwen’s case was music.