Collection DENMAN - DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)

Key Information

Reference code

DENMAN

Title

DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)

Date(s)

  • 1939-1946 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres

Scope and content

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women's Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in sections as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1884-1954)

Biographical history

Born 1884; educated privately; Member of Executive Committee, Woman's National Liberal Federation, 1909-1910; in Australia, 1911-1914; Director, S Pearson and Son Limited; Director, Westminster Press Limited; Chairman, sub-committee of the Agricultural Organisation Society, 1916; Chairman of National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1917-1946; awarded CBE, 1920; Chairman, Family Planning Association, 1930-1954; President of Ladies' Golf Union, 1932-1938; Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women, 1932-1953; created DBE, 1933; Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939; Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1938-1954; Honorary Director of Women's Land Army, 1939-1945; appointed GBE, 1951; Chairman, Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund; died 1954.

Custodial history

Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

The Denman family and estate papers are held by West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester.

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: GBE

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area