Florence Welch Parents: Meet Evelyn Welch & Nick Welch

Florence Welch was born to Nick Welch and Evelyn Welch, an American immigrant from New York City who was educated at Harvard University and the Warburg Institute, University London.

Evelyn Welch is Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol. Through her mother, Welch has both British and American citizenship.

Florence’s parents divorced when she was thirteen, and her mother eventually married their next-door neighbour, Professor Peter Openshaw. Around this time, her maternal grandmother, who had bipolar disorder, died from suicide.

In her youth, Florence sang at family weddings and funerals. Aged ten, she performed the song, Yum Yum from The Mikado by Gibert and Sullivan at Colin Welch’s memorial service.