Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(née Stuart-Wortley; 15 June 1858 – 7 August 1940) was a British novelist, administrator and artist. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women and led the Women's Farm and Garden Union. The daughter of the philanthropist

Jane Stuart-Wortley Jane Stuart-Wortley or Jane Thompson; Jane Lawley (5 December 1820 – 4 February 1900) was an English philanthropist. Life Stuart-Wortley was born in York in 1820 when her surname was Thompson. Her family adopted the surname Lawley when her fat ...

and the politician James Stuart-Wortley,Jane Stuart Wortley
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''; retrieved 31 January 2016. she was born in

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, London, and married

Norman Grosvenor Captain The Honourable Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor (22 April 1845 – 21 November 1898), was a British Liberal Party politician. Early life Grosvenor was one of five sons and two daughters born to Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury and the former ...

(died 1898), son of

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury PC (24 April 1801 – 18 November 1893), styled Lord Robert Grosvenor from 1831 to 1857, was a British courtier and Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1830 and 1834 and as Treas ...

, in 1881. One of their daughters, Susan, married

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career ...

.Obituary, ''

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'', 9 August 1940 Miss Stillman by Caroline Grosvenor 1893-4

Grosvenor wrote three novels: ''The Bands of Orion'', ''The Thornton Device'', and ''Laura'' (with her older brother,

Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926), was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1916, shortly before he was raised to the peerage. He serve ...

). Also with her brother Charles, in 1926 she wrote a two-volume family history: ''The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779–1856)''. She was a well known

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and

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painter. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women, which later amalgamated with the Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women, a subsidiary of the

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. As the war ended, the Women's Farm and Garden Union, which had created the

Women's Land Army The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the ...

, considered its future. One idea was to ready women for emigration but the chair "Mrs Norman Grosvenor" minuted that they would embark on a scheme of establishing small holdings for women. With the backing of the union, Louisa Wilkins and Katherine Courtauld established a set of small holdings in 1920 on Wire Mill Lane in

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. Grosvenor was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for her services to emigrant British women.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grosvenor, Caroline 1858 births 1940 deaths English watercolourists English women novelists English women painters Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Caroline Portrait miniaturists Caroline Painters from London People from Westminster 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters 19th-century English women artists 20th-century English women artists Women watercolorists