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Isobel Cripps

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Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (née Swithinbank; 25 January 1891 – 11 April 1979), also known as Isobel, the Honourable Lady Cripps, was a British overseas aid organiser and the wife of the Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps.

Born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, she was the youngest of three children of Commander Harold William Swithinbank FRSE DL (1858–1928) and Amy Eno, the daughter of James Crossley Eno.[1][2] She was educated at the Heathfield School, near Ascot.

Swithinbank met Stafford Cripps in January 1910. The couple married on 12 July 1911 at Denham parish church and had four children:

She was a governor of The Peckham Experiment in 1949[4] and a Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women.[5]

References

  1. ^ Howard, Joseph. Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 7. England, 1899, pages 150–151.
  2. ^ Stark, James. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution. Boston, 1910, pages 426–429.
  3. ^ Brozan, Nadine (16 February 2006). "Peggy Appiah, 84, Author Who Bridged Two Cultures, Dies". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "The Bulletin of the Pioneer Health Centre". Peckham. 1 (5). September 1949. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  5. ^ EAW (1950). EAW Silver Jubilee Handbook 1950. IET Library and Archives: EAW.

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