Rachel Crowdy

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Dame Rachel Crowdy in her Voluntary Aid Detachment tunic

Dame Rachel Eleanor Crowdy, Mrs Thornhill,

Doctor of Laws in 1927.[4]

Life

A daughter of James Crowdy, a solicitor from Kensington, and Mary Isabel Anne (

V.A.D.s in 1914. She was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.[2]

One of her sisters,

Edith, CBE, was the Deputy Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service from 1917 to 1919, while another sister, Isabel Crowdy, OBE, was the Assistant Director Inspector of Training for the same organisation.[5] A third sister, Mary, was also awarded the CBE. Her brother was James Fuidge Crowdy, MVO.[6]

From 1919 to 1931, Rachel Crowdy was Head of the Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section of the League of Nations, making her the only woman to be head of an administrative section of the League of Nations.[2]

In 1920-21, she accompanied the International Typhus Commission to Poland at the height of the post-war

Café Royal.[2]

In 1931, she was a member of the British delegation to the

Parliamentary Commission in 1937,[8] and sat on the 1938-39 Royal Commission on the West Indies.[2]

During World War II she acted as Regions Advisor to the Ministry of Information, reporting on bomb damage in British cities.[citation needed]

Marriage

In 1939, Crowdy married

Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6).[10]

Death

Dame Rachel Crowdy, Mrs Thornhill, died at her home in Outwood, Surrey on 10 October 1964, aged 80.[citation needed]

Works

  • The League of Nations: Its Social and Humanitarian Work, The American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 28, No. 4 (April 1928)[11]

References

  1. ^
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    , Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Oct 2008, accessed 7 Nov 2010
  2. ^ a b c d e 'Dame Rachel Crowdy', The Times, 12 October 1964, pg. 12
  3. ^ Papers of the International Bureau for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons: British National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine at the Women's Library
  4. ^ a b "Miss Crowdy's distinguished sister". The Sun. Sydney. 26 April 1931. p. 31. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  5. ISBN 9781783032778
    .
  6. ^ Obituary: James Fuidge Crowdy, newspapers.com. Accessed 5 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Many escapes in exciting life". The Cairns Post. Cairns, Queensland. 28 February 1936. p. 9. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  8. ^ British women and the Spanish Civil War, epdf.pub. Accessed 6 October 2022.(subscription required)
  9. ^ Portraits of Cudbert John Massy Thornhill (1883–1952), Colonel at the National Portrait Gallery, London
  10. London Gazette supplement, 10 October 1918
    regarding Cudbert Thornhill, DSO, Indian Army.
  11. JSTOR 3409351
    .

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