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Mary Russell Thew ( Frew;18 December 1876 - 21 January 1953) was a Scottish jewellery designer, silversmith and painter. She was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and won the Lauder Prize in 1925.

Life
Mary Russell Frew was born in Partick, Glasgow in 1876. Her father was a civil engineer and land surveyor, Alexander Frew (18 December 1847 - 29 November 1910) and her mother Joan Gordon (1850 - 21 November 1932). They married on 5 August 1873.

She married her husband James Mursell Thew (7 February 1876 - 2 July 1910) in 1903. Her husband was an engineer, and his hobby was silversmithing. He would make pieces for Mary. Soon Mary learned how to silversmith too. She took a course in silversmithing with Rhoda Wager, who had studied at the Glasgow School of Art and was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.

Mary and James had a son James Gordon Thew (20 June 1904 - 21 September 1980).

On the death of her husband in 1910 and a young son to support, Mary Thew took the decision to become a full time silversmith and artist.

Around 1925 she was staying at 2 Menteith Villas, Scotstounhill in Glasgow.

Around 1930 she stayed at 704 Anniesland Road in Glasgow; she was at that address before travelling to Morocco in February of that year, staying there for a month, before returning. She was there till around 1937, her name on the Glasgow register of voters of that year at that address.

In 1939 she was interviewed by The Glasgow Herald. At that point she had moved to Milngavie.

In 1940 she moved to Kirkcudbright, first staying at 44 High Street. She then stayed in Greengate, Kirdcudbright.

At some point in her life she stayed in Helensburgh.

She moved to North Wales towards the end of her life; and stayed in Highways, Albert Drive in Deganwy, in Caernarvonshire.

Art
She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1894 to 1896.

She joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1911.

She won the Lauder Prize in 1925 for an exhibit of jewellery.

Death
She died in 21 January 1953 in Colwyn Bay, Caernarvonshire, North Wales.