Maud Frances Sambourne

Maud Frances Messel (; 5 August 18758 March 1960) was a British artist and horticulturalist. She was awarded an MBE for her work with the Red Cross in World War I.

Biography Maud Frances Sambourne was born on 5 August 1875 in Kensington, the daughter of Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and Marion Herapath Sambourne. She grew up in Sambourne House.

Samboure had lessons from artist Blanche Vicat-Cole and published her first drawing in Punch in 1892, followed by drawings in Pall Mall Magazine in 1894. She also provided illustrations for a pair of books of fantastic stories: Fantasies (1896) by Mabel Nembhard and Cherriwink: a fairy story (1897) by Rachel Penn.

Messel died on 8 March 1960. As their family grew, they later took a larger town residence at No. 104 Lancaster Gate, Bayswater, and later the wedding reception of her granddaughter Susan Armstrong-Jones to John Vesey (later 6th Viscount de Vesci) in 1950.

Following the death of Maud's father-in-law Ludwig Messell in 1915, Leonard inherited the family's Sussex estate Nymans, where Maud built a widely praised garden featuring old garden roses.