GB 0099 KCLMA Denman - DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0099 KCLMA Denman

Title

DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954)

Date(s)

  • Created 1939-1946 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Born 1884; educated privately; Member of Executive Committee, Woman's National Liberal Federation, 1909-1910; in Australia, 1911-1914; Director, S Pearson and Son Limited; Director, Westminster Press Limited; Chairman, sub-committee of the Agricultural Organisation Society, 1916; Chairman of National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1917-1946; awarded CBE, 1920; Chairman, Family Planning Association, 1930-1954; President of Ladies' Golf Union, 1932-1938; Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women, 1932-1953; created DBE, 1933; Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939; Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1938-1954; Honorary Director of Women's Land Army, 1939-1945; appointed GBE, 1951; Chairman, Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund; died 1954.

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Denman Created 1939-1946 Collection (fonds) 1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres

Born 1884; educated privately; Member of Executive Committee, Woman's National Liberal Federation, 1909-1910; in Australia, 1911-1914; Director, S Pearson and Son Limited; Director, Westminster Press Limited; Chairman, sub-committee of the Agricultural Organisation Society, 1916; Chairman of National Federation of Women's Institutes, 1917-1946; awarded CBE, 1920; Chairman, Family Planning Association, 1930-1954; President of Ladies' Golf Union, 1932-1938; Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women, 1932-1953; created DBE, 1933; Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association, 1934-1939; Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, 1938-1954; Honorary Director of Women's Land Army, 1939-1945; appointed GBE, 1951; Chairman, Women's Land Army Benevolent Fund; died 1954.

Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982.

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women's Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.

The collection is arranged in sections as above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

The Denman family and estate papers are held by West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester.

Decorations: GBE
Sep 1998 Agricultural workers Employment International conflicts Personnel War Womens employment Women's Land Army Workers World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) People by occupation People

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women's Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in sections as above.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

The Denman family and estate papers are held by West Sussex County Record Office, Chichester.

Finding aids

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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Publication note

Decorations: GBE

Notes area

Note

Decorations: GBE

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Description control area

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Institution identifier

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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Language(s)

  • English

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