Sculptor in bronze, stone and wood, and painter, of figure groups and birds. Born at Sandy, Bedfordshire, Edgcumbe worked in the studio of the sculptor Havard Thomas, then studied under him at the Slade School where she won the scholarship for sculpture in 1918. When she left in 1921 she turned from modelling to direct carving for architectural projects, especially for George Kennedy. Lack of commissions and of sympathy with current trends prompted Edgcumbe in 1940 to turn from sculpture to painting. She had had a one-man sculpture show at the Leger Galleries in 1935; several painting shows followed after World War II. Commissioned work includes the large granite war memorial at Zennor, Cornwall. Work reproduced in William Aumonier’s Modern Architectural Sculpture, Kineton Parkes’ The Art of Carved Sculpture and the Fine Art Society catalogue Sculpture in Britain Between the Wars, 1986.