Early Life
Brenda's father, Frank Duff Frazier, came from a prosperous Boston family. Her mother, the former Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor, was the only daughter of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (a general manager of the Bank of Montreal who was knighted in 1910 and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated surname) and his wife, the former Jane Fayrer Henshaw. Lady Frederick Williams-Taylor was painted in 1917 by the Swiss-born American society artist Adolfo Muller-Ury in Nassau in the Bahamas, after which he attended Brenda Germaine's wedding to Frank Frazier in Montreal in December of that year. Both parents drank heavily, caroused separately and eventually divorced, causing Brenda to spend much time with her maternal grandmother.
Her parents divorced when Brenda was 11, and both remarried. Her mother's second and third husbands were Frederick N. Watriss and Henry Pierrepont Perry.
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