Isobel Cripps
Dame Isobel Cripps Lady Cripps GBE | |
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| Born | 25 January 1891 Denham, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Died | 11 April 1979 (aged 88) |
| Occupation | British overseas aid organiser |
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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.
Life
[edit]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.[citation needed]
Swithinbank met Stafford Cripps in January 1910. The couple married on 12 July 1911 at Denham parish church and had four children:
- Sir John Stafford Cripps (1912–1993)
- Isobel Diana Cripps (1913–1985)
- (Anne) Theresa Cripps (1919–1998), who was married to Sir Robert Cornwallis Gerald St. Leger Ricketts, 7th Bt.
- Peggy Cripps, born Enid Margaret Cripps (1921–2006), children's author and philanthropist, who married the Ghanaian lawyer and statesman Nana Joe Appiah; their son is the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (b. 1954).[3]
She was a governor of The Peckham Experiment in 1949[4] and a Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, eds. (1899). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 7. London: Priv. printed. p. 152.
- ^ Stark, James. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution. Boston, 1910, pages 426–429.
- ^ Brozan, Nadine (16 February 2006). "Peggy Appiah, 84, Author Who Bridged Two Cultures, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Bulletin of the Pioneer Health Centre". Peckham. 1 (5). September 1949. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ EAW (1950). EAW Silver Jubilee Handbook 1950. IET Library and Archives: EAW.
External links
[edit]- Introducing Lady Cripps - film recording 1944[1]
Sources
[edit]- Watson, Colin. "Cripps, Dame Isobel, Lady Cripps (1891–1979)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30983. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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- ^ Introducing Lady Cripps, British Film Institute https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-introducing-lady-cripps-1944-online Retrieved 29 Sept 2024.