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Women's Legion
Women's Legion was a British charitable organisation created in 1915 by Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the Marchioness of Londonderry. Its first general secretary (to 1918) was Rose Bradley, daughter of George Granville Bradley George Granville Bradley (11 December 1821 – 13 March 1903) was an English divine, scholar, and schoolteacher, who was Dean of Westminster (1881–1902). Life George Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, was vicar of Glasbury, Brecon, mid Wales ..., Dean of Westminster. It comprised volunteers who wore military-style uniforms and took on various duties within agriculture, canteen, cookery and motor transport sections. More than 40,000 women joined its forces. References Charities based in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1915 1915 establishments in the United Kingdom Organizations with year of disestablishment missing Women's organisations based in the United Kingdom [Baidu] |
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart
Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (''née'' Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald. She was a noted gardener and a writer and editor of the works of others. Early life Born as Edith Helen Chaplin in Blankney, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin, Henry Chaplin, landowner and Conservative politician and later the Viscount Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923), and Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1855–1881). After the death of her mother in 1881, Edith was raised largely at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, the estate of her George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, maternal grandfather, the third Duke of Sutherland. Public works In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, she was appointed the Colonel-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Bradley
Rose Marian Bradley (1867 – 24 September 1948) was an English journalist and writer. Biography On 19 June 1867, Bradley was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Bradley's father was George Bradley, Dean of Westminster. Bradley contributed to the ''Cornhill Magazine ''The Cornhill Magazine'' (1860–1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co. at 65 Cornhill in London.Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, ''Dictionar ...'' and ''The Nineteenth Century (periodical), The Nineteenth Century''. During World War I she was secretary to the Women's Legion, for which she received an O.B.E. She also helped compile the biography of Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin, Lord Chaplin.'Miss Rose Bradley', ''The Times'', 28 September 1948. Works * ''Children at Play, and other sketches'', 1911 * ''The English Housewife in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'', 1912 References 1867 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
