Domini Crosfield
{{Short description|British politician and tennis player}}
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File:1929 Lady Domini Crosfield.jpg
Domini Crosfield, Lady Crosfield (1884 – 15 January 1963), was a British Liberal Party politician and tennis player.
Background
Born Domini Elliadi in Lancashire, she was the daughter of Elie M. Elliadi (1843–1928), a Greek merchant from Smyrnia, and Marie Homer (1863–1924).{{Cite web|url = http://www.ancestry.co.uk|title = Ancestry™ {{!}} Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records|website = www.ancestry.co.uk|access-date = 2 May 2016}} In 1907 she married Arthur Crosfield, Liberal MP for Warrington, 1906–1910. When her husband was created a baronet in 1915 she became Lady Crosfield.'CROSFIELD, Domini, (Lady Crosfield)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U51059, accessed 20 June 2020]{{cite book|author1=Maria Geōrgiadou|author2=Maria Georgiadou|title=Constantin Carathéodory: Mathematics and Politics in Turbulent Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVIXBOFNty8C&pg=PA569|date=2 July 2004|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-20352-0|page=569|quote=Lady Crosfield was Domini Eliadi t1892-1963). a Greek millionairess and wife of Sir Arthur Crosfield.}}
Career
During World War One, Lady Crosfield was Honorary Adviser on Exhibitions and Art to the Greek Department of Information. From 1915-19 she was Commandant of two VAD hospices. She was actively involved in the running of the North Islington Infant Welfare Centre and School for Mothers. In 1919 she became President of the centre, a position she would hold until 1959.{{Cite book|title = Manor Garden Centre, 1913-2013|last = Turton|first = A|publisher = Manor Garden Press|year = 2013|location = London}} She was Founder and Chairman of Pediki Steghi (Day Nurseries) and of Music for Children in Greece. She was a Member of Council, for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing. She was a Member of the Grants Committee of the National Playing Fields Association. She was a Member of the Executive of the Children's Playground Committee. She was a Member of the Executive of National Association of Maternity and Child Welfare. She was a Member of the Executive and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League. She was Vice-President and Director of the London Philharmonic Society. She was Vice-President of the National Playing Fields Association and a member of the Grants and Children’s Playground Sub-Committee.
Political career
At a parliamentary General Election she contested, as a Liberal party candidate Islington North in 1929;
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Robert Stanley Young
|votes = 18,272
|percentage = 41.8
|change = +6.5
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Gordon Cosmo Touche
|votes = 15,207
|percentage = 34.8
|change = -9.6
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Domini Crosfield, Lady Crosfield
|votes = 10,210
|percentage = 23.4
|change = +3.1
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{{Election box majority|
|votes = 3,065
|percentage = 7.0
|change = -2.1
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{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 68.0
|change = -4.2
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{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|loser = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +8.0
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She did not stand for parliament again.British parliamentary election results 1818-1949, Craig, F. W. S. In 1938, she was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of George I (Greece). She was made a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) and the Diploma of Commander of Order of Welfare (Greece).
She was a championship tennis player, and at her home in Witanhurst she hosted her own charity tennis competition immediately after the Wimbledon fortnight, with many of the championship players staying on in London for the event.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} For the 1906 Intercalated Games, Domini Elliadis entered the Women's singles but did not start at the event.{{cite web |title=Domini Elliadis |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1805005 |website=Olympedia |access-date=July 15, 2021}}