Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (néeSwithinbank; 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.
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.[1][2] 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).[3]
She was a governor of The Peckham Experiment in 1949[4] and a Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women.[5]
^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.
^Brozan, Nadine (16 February 2006). "Peggy Appiah, 84, Author Who Bridged Two Cultures, Dies". The New York Times.
^"The Bulletin of the Pioneer Health Centre". Peckham. 1 (5). September 1949. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
^EAW (1950). EAW Silver Jubilee Handbook 1950. IET Library and Archives: EAW.
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...
Davy, having four sons and two daughters. Isobel Diana Cripps (1913–1985) who died unmarried (Anne) Theresa Cripps (1919–1998), who was married 1945 to Sir...
Margaret Cripps was born at Goodfellows in Gloucestershire, just across the county border from the home of her parents, Stafford Cripps and Isobel (née)...
two daughters, Enid (b. 1887) and Isobel (1891-1979). Isobel married Sir Stafford Cripps, becoming Dame IsobelCripps. British Sea Fish: An Illustrated...
in January 2022. Appiah was born in London, England, to Peggy Cripps Appiah (née Cripps), an English art historian and writer, and Joe Appiah, a lawyer...
Eno's granddaughter, Dame IsobelCripps (1891–1979), was an overseas aid organizer, his great-granddaughter, Peggy Cripps, was a children's book author...
1944: The Dowager Marchioness of Reading 1946: Clementine Churchill, IsobelCripps 1948: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Beryl Oliver 1951: The Baroness...
(1858-1928) British veterinarian and army and navy officer, father of IsobelCripps Swithinbank Slope an ice slope in the Kirwan Escarpment. Swithinbank...
included Humphry Osmond, Andrija Puharich, David Ben-Gurion, and Lady IsobelCripps, among its 500 members. After teaming up with his good friend and noted...
Nkrumah was Appiah's first choice for best man at his wedding to Peggy Cripps in 1953 ("but the job went to arguably the more influential figure of George...
'Skippo', and donations and gifts from Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and IsobelCripps. The Fund paid for a mobile health van that was custom built in the...
implied relationship with Weissman. Isobel asks Elsie to speak to Sir William about hiring Freddie, who is blackmailing Isobel over their affair and her aborted...
her astringent affection for hundreds of 'crazy mixed-up kids'.' Dame IsobelCripps described Brew as a 'constructive force', whose 'great gift to us all...
"mystified" by it. However, Ferguson praised the supporting cast. Charlotte Cripps of The Independent reviewed the show negatively, finding that it differs...
Asch". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 June 2023. "1954/4 Sir Stafford Cripps inscription". David McFall RA (1919-1988). Retrieved 29 May 2023. "Bertrand...
Archived from the original on February 22, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023. Cripps, Charlotte (June 21, 2013). "Country music star Taylor Swift the new country...
as "that terrible Amritsar business". The characters of Lord Grantham, Isobel Crawley and Shrimpy express their disapproval of the massacre when Lord...
by Anthony Powell Frederick Heyworth Cripps (1885–1977) Portraits: 1938, Anthony Wysard (1907–1984) Violet Cripps (1891–1983) Portraits: 1938, Anthony...
Sinclair, 2004. p. 33. Sinclair, 2004. pp. 40–41. Brown, 2002. p. 175. Cripps, Peachey, Spice Girls 1997. p. 86 Sinclair, 2004. pp. 42–43. Brown, 2002...
Student Unity (2017 NUS General Secretary) and 2017 LTSU President Jacob Cripps from Student Unity (2018 NUS General Secretary). During the 1995 SRC election...
Scotland. London: HarperCollins. ODNB entry by Andrew Rutherford, rev. Isobel Murray. Retrieved 4 November 2012. Pay-walled. National Library of Scotland...
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