Ruth Hornblower

Ruth Hornblower Atkins Greenough Churchill (April 18, 1887 – July 9, 1970) was an American educator, clubwoman, and writer. She published a children's editiion of the King James Bible with illustrations by William Blake and Rudolph Ruzicka.

Early life and education Hornblower was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, the daughter of banker Henry Hornblower and Harriet Frances Wood Hornblower. She graduated from Vassar College in 1908.

Career Churchill was a member of the Boston Community Nursing Association from 1911 to 1916, and taught kindergarten in Cuba during the winters of those years, because her first husband operated sugar mills there. During World War I she managed Belmont's community kitchen program. Sarah Lawrence College, and Simmons College. It included decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka, Chester Noyes Greenough: Teacher, Dean, Master, Scholar (1940) The Home Bible: Arranged for Family Reading (1951, arranged by Ruth Hornblower Greenough, with illustrations by William Blake) Mother's Chronicles (1966, memoirs, privately printed in 2 volumes) She married Harvard English professor Chester Noyes Greenough in 1931; he died in 1938. Her third husband was Lawrence Whitfield Churchill; they married in 1953 and he died in 1959. She died in 1970, at the age of 83. and one of her scrapbooks in the Arlington Historical Society. She left her home and 26-acre estate in Belmont for the purpose of environmental education. It was acquired by the Massachusetts Audubon Society in 1994, and became part of a nature preserve.