Vere Monckton-Arundell, Viscountess Galway (née Gosling; 1859 - 3 January 1921) was a British poet, writer, philanthropist, and woman of letters. In 1910, she co-founded an auxiliary hospital at her home,

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, with her husband. She was invested as a Lady of Justice of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

Biography

Lady Galway was born Vere Gosling in 1859 in

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, the only daughter of Emma Susan Duncombe and Ellis Gosling of Busbridge Hall. On 24 July 1879, she married George Edward Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway. She and her husband founded a military hospital at their home,

, in 1910. The hospital functioned as an auxiliary hospital under Surgeon General Ford of York during

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. The hospital was run and expenses covered by Lord and Lady Galway. Lord and Lady Galway had two children, ''

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'' Violet Frances Monckton and

George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, (24 March 1882 – 27 March 1943) was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941. Early life and family George Vere Arundell Monc ...

. Lady Galway was appointed a Lady of Justice of the

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. Lady Galway wrote ''The Art of Conserving'' in 1905 and ''The Programme of King Harry's Revel Held at Serlby'' in August 1908. She also wrote poetry. A book of her poetry, ''The Creed of Love and Other Poems'', was published in 1922, after her death. After her death, a collection of her letters was also published. The collection includes letters to her husband; her son; her brother, Ellis D. Gosling;

Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough Major General Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough (16 November 1857 – 4 March 1945), styled Viscount Lumley from 1868 to 1884, was an Anglo-Irish peer, soldier and landowner. He was noted for his long service in ...

; Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Countess Eleanore zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn; and Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace. She died on 3 January 1921.

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Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City status in Ireland, city in the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, which is the county town of County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lo ...

English women non-fiction writers English women poets English women philanthropists Ladies of Justice of the Order of St John People from Surrey (before 1889)