Frances Bannerman

Frances Bannerman (née Jones) (1855 – 1940) was a Canadian painter and poet. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs. She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. She produced watercolours, oils, and black and white illustrations. In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England. Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

She was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1882. She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.