Personal Life
Queenie was the eldest daughter of the ten children of Henry Newall and Maria Fenton. Her father was a merchant and owned the Hare Hill country house and estate in Over Alderley, Cheshire. Her grandfather John Fenton was the Member of Parliament for Rochdale following the 1832 and 1837 general elections. Queenie never married, and instead lived with her sister Margaret in Cheltenham all her life.
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