Isobel Cripps
{{Short description|British aristocrat (1891–1979)}}
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| name = Isobel Cripps
| honorific_suffix = Lady Cripps GBE
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| birth_place = {{nowrap|Denham, Buckinghamshire, England}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1979|4|11|1891|1|25}}
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| father = Harold William Swithinbank
| mother = Amy Eno
| spouse = {{marriage|Stafford Cripps|12 July 1911|21 April 1952|end=died}}
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| occupation = British overseas aid organiser
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| Sir John Stafford Cripps (son)
| Peggy Cripps (daughter)
| Sir Robert Cornwallis (son-in-law)
| Joe Appiah (son-in-law)
| Kwame Anthony Appiah (grandson)
| James Crossley Eno (maternal grandfather)
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Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (née Swithinbank; 25 January 1891 – 11 April 1979), also known as Isobel, the Honourable Lady Cripps, was a British overseas aid organiser and the wife of the Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps.
Life
{{Main|Cripps-Appiah-Edun family}}
Born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, she was the youngest of three children of Commander Harold William Swithinbank FRSE DL (1858–1928) and Amy Eno, the daughter of James Crossley Eno.Howard, Joseph. Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 7. England, 1899, pages 150–151.Stark, James. The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution. Boston, 1910, pages 426–429. She was educated at the Heathfield School, near Ascot.
Swithinbank met Stafford Cripps in January 1910. The couple married on 12 July 1911 at Denham parish church and had four children:
- Sir John Stafford Cripps (1912–1993)
- Isobel Diana Cripps (1913–1985)
- (Anne) Theresa Cripps (1919–1998), who was married to Sir Robert Cornwallis Gerald St. Leger Ricketts, 7th Bt.
- Peggy Cripps, born Enid Margaret Cripps (1921–2006), children's author and philanthropist, who married the Ghanaian lawyer and statesman Nana Joe Appiah; their son is the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (b. 1954).{{cite news| last=Brozan | first=Nadine | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/international/africa/16appiah.html | title=Peggy Appiah, 84, Author Who Bridged Two Cultures, Dies | newspaper=The New York Times | date=16 February 2006 }}
She was a governor of The Peckham Experiment in 1949{{cite journal|title=The Bulletin of the Pioneer Health Centre|journal=Peckham|date=September 1949|volume=1|issue=5|url=http://www.sochealth.co.uk/1949/09/21/peckham/|access-date=21 October 2016}} and a Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women.{{Cite book|last=EAW|title=EAW Silver Jubilee Handbook 1950|publisher=EAW|year=1950|location=IET Library and Archives}}
References
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External links
- Introducing Lady Cripps - film recording 1944 Introducing Lady Cripps, British Film Institute https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-introducing-lady-cripps-1944-online Retrieved 29 Sept 2024.
Sources
- {{cite news| first=Colin | last=Watson | title=Cripps, Dame Isobel, Lady Cripps (1891–1979) | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30983 | work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2004 }}
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Category:Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Category:English people of American descent