{{Short description|(1895–1982) violinist and philanthropist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Alice Ivy Wigmore | image = | image_size = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = 9 January 1895 | birth_place = [[Mildura]] | death_date = 21 August 1982 | death_place = [[Aberdeen]] | death_cause = | education = | occupation = | employer = | known_for = | spouse = Walter Edward Moncrieff Paterson<br>Malcolm Vivian Hay | children = Lorna Paterson | parents = | relatives = | website = | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Alice Ivy Wigmore''' became '''Alice Ivy Hay''' and '''Alice Ivy Paterson''' (9 January 1895 – 21 August 1982) was an [[Australia]]n violinist, writer and philanthropist. She abandoned years of training to marry. She later took to writing, including a book addressed to her grandson. She made major bequests to educational institutions including the [[Royal College of Music]] and the Wigmore Music Library at the [[University of Western Australia]].
== Life == Wigmore was born in 1895 in [[Mildura]], Victoria, Australia. Her parents were Alice Elizabeth (born Wallis) and Herbert John Wigmore. Her father was a businessperson and her mother was skilled pianist. When she was twelve years old she went to study at the [[Royal College of Music]] in London accompanied by her mother who had been her first teacher.<ref name=":0" /> She was one of only three students invited to London for two years and her stay was extended for another two years and then again. She learned piano, violin and at her request, voice. She passed her final exams but the outbreak of war prevented her from staging her musical debut. Her journey back was made via India and Ceylon where she met Walter Edward Moncrieff Paterson of Tilliefoure.
She decided to abandon her music ambitions and marry Paterson. They had a daughter Lorna. Lorna later married [[Orde Wingate]]. Wingate rose to a Major General who created the unconventional fighting force known as "[[Chindits|The Chindits]]". Orde Wingate was an outstanding soldier who died young in 1944 and six weeks before the birth of his son and her grandson, Orde Jonathan Wingate.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-11-03 |title=Lt-Col Orde Wingate |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1372902/Lt-Col-Orde-Wingate.html |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref>
Her second husband was Major [[Malcolm Vivian Hay]] of Seaton, a military officer and cryptographer in the [[First World War]] and a historian of Catholics in Britain. They married in 1956 and he died in 1962. The year before she had written her first book, ''Under the Eiderdown: The diary of a dachshund''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SCAN Catalogue - person record |url=https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/scancatalogue/person.aspx?code=ABD69&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=y&tp=n&k=Walter+baird+smyth+&ko=o&r=&ro=s& |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk}}</ref> Wigmore used the name "Alice Ivy Hay" to write a biography of Orde Wingate, her son-in-law<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last1=Bolton |first1=G. C. |title=Alice Ivy Wigmore (1895–1982) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wigmore-alice-ivy-15800 |access-date=2024-06-06 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |last2=Morant |first2=Andrew}}</ref> titled "''There was a Man of Genius : Letters to my Grandson Orde Jonathan Wingate''" which was published in 1963.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hay |first=Alice Ivy |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-was-Man-Genius-Grandson/dp/B000S5NQXA |title=There was a Man of Genius : Letters to my Grandson Orde Jonathan Wingate |date=1963-01-01 |publisher=London N. Spearman |edition=First |language=English}}</ref> Her grandson, Lt Col Orde Jonathan Wingate became a regimental colonel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-11-03 |title=Lt-Col Orde Wingate |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1372902/Lt-Col-Orde-Wingate.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2019-07-02 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
==Legacy and death== After she became a widow for the second time she gave substantial gifts to educational institutions. The Royal College of Music received money to fund performers from the Ivy Wigmore-Hay award.<ref name=":1" />
Wigmore gave thousands of pounds to the [[University of Western Australia]] after meeting Sir [[Frank Callaway]]. She gave him money that enabled him to purchase music for a music library and to fund the building of the Wigmore Music Library in memory of her mother. That music library "The Wigmore" is said to be the finest in Australia.<ref name="Emeritus Professor David Tunley">{{cite web |url= http://www.isme.org/en/isme-s-4th-honorary-president-sir-frank-callaway/obituary-by-emeritus-professor-david-t-2.html |title= Obituary |work= International Society for Music Education |access-date= 24 January 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080728172537/http://www.isme.org/en/isme-s-4th-honorary-president-sir-frank-callaway/obituary-by-emeritus-professor-david-t-2.html |archive-date= 28 July 2008 |url-status= dead }}</ref> In Aberdeen she gave money that enable the Malcolm Hay Memorial Lecture to be made each year and to fund work to counter anti-semitism. Wigmore died in 1982 in [[Aberdeen]], Scotland and she was buried in [[St Machar's Cathedral]],Scotland where the Hay family have a vault.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last1=Bolton |first1=G. C. |title=Alice Ivy Wigmore (1895–1982) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wigmore-alice-ivy-15800 |access-date=2024-06-06 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |last2=Morant |first2=Andrew}}</ref>
The purpose-built library at the University of Western Australia she had funded was "repurposed" as a studio which inherited the Wigmore name.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University Library Summer 2019-2020 Improvements : Archive Page : The University of Western Australia |url=https://www.news.uwa.edu.au/archive/2019112811745/university-library-summer-2019-2020-improvements/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=www.news.uwa.edu.au}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wigmore-alice-ivy-15800 Biography at ADB]
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