Gladys Mary Chatterjee, Lady Chatterjee OBE (née Broughton; 30 October 1883 – 7 May 1969) was a British teacher, schools inspector, and barrister, and the wife of Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee.

Life

She was born in 1883. Her parents were Emily Angelina (born Filose) and Captain William Barnard Broughton. Her maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Filose, had designed

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(known as the ''Gwalior palace''). Her father died while she was a child and her mother remarried Lt Colonel Ernest Frederick Cambier. She went to Bedford High School and she attended

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where she enjoyed several scholarships as she gained a degree in philosophy. She gained a qualification to teach at

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, but went to work at the

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as an investigator in 1912. In 1913 she went to India to work as an inspector of schools and returned during the war in 1916 to become a welfare officer in the Ministry of Munitions. For this work she earned one of the first OBE's as an "organiser of women’s welfare in national shell and national projectile factories". She then took a doctorate at the

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in ''Women and Children in Indian Industry''. She married in 1924 and as a result she became Lady Chatterjee when her husband was knighted as he became the high commissioner for India in 1925. She was able to practise as a barrister after she was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1933.

Personal life

On 30 April 1924 she married Sir

Atul Chandra Chatterjee Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee (Bengali: অতুল চন্দ্র চ্যাটার্জী; 24 November 1874 – 8 September 1955) was an Indian diplomat and government official who served as the Indian High Commissioner to the Unite ...

who was a member of the viceroy’s executive council, while she was working for the Indian Educational Service. She was his second wife and he had a surviving daughter from his first marriage to Vina Mookerjee. After Indian independence, they emigrated to the UK, settling in Kensington in London, where her husband died in 1955. Subsequently Lady Chatterjee presented his books to the Centre of South Asian Studies,

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.University of Cambridge: CHATTERJEE PAPERS

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chatterjee, Gladys 1883 births 1969 deaths Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of University College London British women educators British barristers People educated at Bedford High School, Bedfordshire Wives of knights People from Ujjain British people in colonial India