Background
Gurney was born in 1919, the younger daughter of the French painter Jacques Raverat and his English wife Gwen (née Darwin). Through her mother she was a great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Sophie Gurney
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Career
Sophie married the entomologist Mark Pryor in 1940. They had four children. Emily (1942–2008), William (born 1945), Lucy (born 1948) and Nelly (born 1952), who married the film director/farmer Philip Trevelyan.
Mark and Sophie Pryor were involved in a road traffic accident in 1967, in which she was relatively unharmed but which left him with brain damage in a persistent vegetative state for almost three years until his death in 1970, aged 51.
She subsequently remarried Henry Charles Horton Gurney Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1913–1997, known as Charles), professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hong Kong (1966-1973), who had been Mark"s boss at RAE Farnborough.
Membership
On his retirement, they moved to Totnes, Devon, where Sophie became a member of the 21 Group of artists.
