Elizabeth Darling (other)
Elizabeth Darling may refer to: *Elizabeth Darling, author of Britain Can Make It *Bessie Darling, American socialite and murder victim *Elizabeth Darling, Author of AA Women in Architecture *Eliza, Lady Darling Eliza, Lady Darling (1798–1868), born Elizabeth Dumaresq, was a British philanthropist and artist. She was the wife of Sir Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831. Early life She was the daughter of Lieut.-Col. John Demare ...

Britain Can Make It
''Britain Can Make It'' was an exhibition of industrial and product design held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1946. It was organised by the ''Council of Industrial Design'', later to become the ''Design Council''. Background Even before the end of World War II, it was recognised that post-war reconstruction of manufacturing and international trade of exported goods would require the widespread acceptance of industrial design as part of future British manufacturing. Accordingly, the ''Council of Industrial Design'' was founded in 1944 by the Board of Trade, as one of the first quangos. The exhibition In September 1945, only a month after the end of the war, the Council announced a national exhibition of design "in all the main range of consumer goods" to be held the following year. This was the 1946 ''Britain Can Make It'' exhibition, organized largely at the instigation of the Council's director, S.C. Leslie. The design of the exhibition itself was co-ordinated ...
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Bessie Darling
Bessie C. Darling (''née'' Warren; August 4, 1885 – October 31, 1933) was an American hotel proprietor and minor socialite from Baltimore who was brutally murdered at her hotel on Halloween night, 1933, by a State of Maryland employee. Biography Bessie Darling was born in Maryland to John Wesley Warren, a grocer, and Fannie Fresh Warren. Darling was married to Charles Howard Whitridge Darling, with whom she had a son, Charles Howard Wesley Darling (1904–1965). They had been separated or divorced for several years prior to her death. In 1920, she was again living with her parents, the Warrens. During Joseph Pache's term directing the Baltimore Oratorio Society, Darling worked as his secretary. In 1918, she opened the Valley View Hotel, a 12-room manor resort in Thurmont, Maryland, with Pache's financial backing. Murder Sometime in 1926, Darling became acquainted with George F. Schultz, who worked for the Health Department of the State of Maryland. Schultz and Darling were so ...
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