Ada Mary Cooper-Chadwick 1880 - 1967
Ada Mary Cooper-Chadwick , youngest dau. (2003) THE Museum of Costume in Bath has just been given a corking new dress that has had staff fizzing with excitement – a fancy dress costume from the turn of the 20th century in the shape of a champagne bottle! The dress belonged originally to Ada Power, the wife of Major Ambrose Grattan Power of Glencraig Abbey in Lismore, Ireland. It was given to the Museum of Costume by her granddaughter's niece – Iris Combe of Cambridgeshire Mrs Power had the costume designed in 1904 in the style of a Veuve Clicquot champagne bottle. She even arranged for authentic labels for the dress that were specially designed and sent over from France. She wore the costume to many of the fashionable fancy dress parties in Dublin during the early 1900s and won a number of prizes.
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| Born: 1880 | Baptised:
| | Died: Old Rectory Nursing Homse, Barham, Kent, , England 16th Nov 1967 | Buried:
| | Family: Cooper-Chadwick |
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