Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
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Dame Diana Cicely Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
Background
The daughter of Major John Archibald Grove and his wife Cicely, she was educated at the
Honours
She was chairman of the Albemarle Report on Youth and Development in the Community in 1960.
By 1999, she was living at Seymours, Melton, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. She was the Dowager Countess of Albemarle from the death of her husband in 1979 until her death on 6 May 2013 at the age of 103. They had one daughter, Lady Anne-Louise Mary Keppel (17 March 1932 – 7 January 2017).[citation needed]
Career
- Norfolk County Organiser, Women's Voluntary Service, 1939–1944
- Chairman, National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1946–1951
- Chairman, Development Commission, 1948–1974
- Chairman, Departmental Committee on Youth Service, 1958–1960
- Chairman, National Youth Employment Council, 1962–1968
- Vice-Chair, British Council, 1959–1974
- Member, Arts Council, 1951
- Member, Royal Commission on the Civil Service, 1954
- Member, UGG, 1956–1978
- Member, Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries, 1958–1971
- Member, English Local Government Boundary Commission, 1971–1977
- Life Trustee, Carnegie UK Trust, and Chairman, 1977–1982
- Member, Glyndebourne Arts Trust, 1968–1980
References
- ^ "The Albemarle Report and the development of youth work in England and Wales". Infed.org. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
Sources
- Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 18.
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, p. 65.
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, p. 49.