Annie, Lady de Sausmarez
{{Short description|British philanthropist (1856–1947)}}
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| name = Lady de Sausmarez
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| caption = Lady de Sausmarez, 1920
| office = President of the British Women's Work Association in Shanghai
| term_start = 1914
| term_end = 1919
| birth_name = Annie Elizabeth Mann
| birth_date = 1856
| birth_place = Wyham cum Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|03|15|1856|df=yes}}
| death_place = Guernsey
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Annie Elizabeth, Lady de Sausmarez, GBE ({{née}} Mann; 1856 – 15 March 1947) was a British philanthropist who was president of the British Women's Work Association in China from 1914 to 1919. For this she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.
Biography
Sausmarez was born in Wyham cum Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England, the daughter of clergyman Frederick William Mann from Guernsey and Eleanor Mary Pattison from Yorkshire.1861 England CensusEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915 She was the niece, through her mother, of Mark Pattison, an Oxford academic.{{cite book |last=Jones |first=H. Stuart |title=Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don |url=https://epdf.pub/intellect-and-character-in-victorian-england-mark-pattison-and-the-invention-of-.html |date=2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |isbn=978-0-521-87605-6 |page=141}} The family moved to Guernsey when she was young.1871 Channel Islands Census1881 Channel Islands Census
In 1897, Sausmarez married Guernseyman Havilland de Sausmarez, a judge in the Foreign Office Judicial Service. He was a judge of the British Supreme Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire until 1905,{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Sir Havilland de Sausmarez |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS118962363/TTDA?u=wes_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=06a92b71 |access-date=29 March 2020 |issue=48936 |date=27 May 1941 |newspaper=The Times |location=London |page=7 |id=Gale Document Number CS118962363}}{{subscription required|via=Gale}} when he was knighted and appointed judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Korea (based in Shanghai).{{cite news |title=Whitehall, December 18, 1905 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27865/page/9084/data.pdf |access-date=29 March 2020 |date=19 December 1905 |newspaper=The London Gazette |location=London |page=9084}}
Between 1914 and 1919, Sausmarez served as president of the British Women's Work Association in Shanghai.[https://robertbickers.net/books/getting-stuck-in-for-shanghai/british-womens-work-association-shanghai/ British Women's Work Association] She organized the war effort to supply British troops with bandages and clothing in September 1914 and by November had organized the Work Association's first shipment.{{cite book |last1=Arnander |first1=Christopher |last2=Wood |first2=Frances |title=Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlGWDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 |year=2016 |publisher=Pen & Sword Books |location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire |isbn=978-1-4738-7503-6 |page=76}} Under her leadership, "hundreds of thousands of bandages, dressings, and hospital garments" were sent to troops serving in Mesopotamia during the war.{{cite book |last=Proctor |first=Tammy M. |title=Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ2ttlZQw9cC&pg=PA180 |year=2010 |publisher=New York University Press |location=New York, New York |isbn=978-0-8147-6780-1 |page=180}} For her service to the war effort, she was honoured as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1920.{{cite news |title=Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31924/page/6037 |access-date=29 March 2020 |date=1 June 1920 |newspaper=The London Gazette |location=London |page=6037}}
They lived in Shanghai until 1920, when they returned to Guernsey, where Sir Havilland served as Bailiff of Guernsey from 1922 to 1929. Sir Havilland died on 5 March 1941. They did not have any children.{{cite news | title=Obituary | newspaper=Times | date=27 May 1941 | page=7}} Lady de Sausmarez died at her home in Guernsey, aged 90, on 15 March 1947 and was cremated after her services at St Martin's Parish Church, Guernsey on 18 March.{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17253489/TTDA?u=wes_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=f195bdb7 |access-date=29 March 2020 |issue=50711 |date=17 March 1947 |newspaper=The Times |location=London |page=1 |id=Gale Document Number CS17253489}}{{subscription required|via=Gale}}
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Category:British philanthropists
Category:British women in World War I
Category:Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Category:People from the Bailiwick of Guernsey