Her mother, Laura Hortense Arnold
, was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Captain Seth Harris Arnold
, and maternal grand-daughter of Peter Spearwater
, a Presbyterian preacher and Tory member of...
When Pearl Richards (the future JOH
) was only a few months old, she and her mother
sailed from the USA to London, to join her father, who had left very shortly after her birth.
Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911.