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Mary Holden Bird ( Caldwell; 24 June 1889 - 28 May 1978) was a Scottish painter.

Life
Her father was William Hay Caldwell (7 April 1859 - 28 August 1941), a baker from Duddingston, Edinburgh.

Her mother was Margaret Gilchrist Watt (21 June 1863 - 2 April 1954) from Sydney, the daughter of a Scottish merchant, John Brown Watt, who had travelled to Australia. John married Mary Jane Holden in Canterbury, New South Wales.

William Caldwell and Margaret Watt married in Woollahra, New South Wales. William and Margaret headed back to Scotland, en route staying a couple of years in England. Their first two daughters were born in England; and their following son and daughter were born in Scotland, where the family settled.

Mary Holden Caldwell, known as Mollie, was born on 24 June 1889 in Cambridge, England. Mary was brought up first in Dunfermline, then at Morar Lodge, Inverness-shire.

She married Cyril Kenneth Bird (17 December 1887 - 11 June 1965) on 16 September 1914 in Bayswater, London. Cyril was also an artist and drew cartoons for Punch magazine under the name Fougasse. In 1918, Cyril graduated as a civil engineer while staying at Morar Lodge in Morar, Inverness-shire. The couple stayed in Morar till the 1930s when they moved to London; but the couple later moved back to Scotland.

Art
While staying at Goldensands, Morar, in 1927 she exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy her work: Early Sunlight.

Hebridean Glimpses. Princess Marie Louise, host of distinguished people otlS the Fine Art Society's Galley , the exhibitions of two Scoty* j artists, Miss Hilda May > Mrs Mary Holden Bird, $ "Fougasse," the humorous. *' a and caricaturist. Mrs Bird, l!l colours, gives glimpses of Isles which reproduce all then j charm of colouring without ° n false romance. Her interpr distance and atmosphere ,n efficient. I liked the way J ljn'e pictures the sinister crenellated l Cuillins was made to give its and no more.

Death
She died suddenly at her home in The Mews, Orchard Road in Forres on 28 May 1978.