Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(née Stuart-Wortley; 15 June 1858 – 7 August 1940) was a British novelist, administrator and artist. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women and led the Women's Farm and Garden Union. The daughter of the philanthropist

Jane Stuart-Wortley Jane Stuart-Wortley or Jane Thompson; Jane Lawley (5 December 1820 – 4 February 1900) was an English philanthropist. She was described as the best horsewoman as well as the most accomplished conversationalist of her day. Lord Cardigan, retur ...

and the politician James Stuart-Wortley,Jane Stuart Wortley
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''; retrieved 31 January 2016. she was born in

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, London, and married Norman Grosvenor (died 1898), son of

Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury PC (24 April 1801 – 18 November 1893), styled Lord Robert Grosvenor from 1831 to 1857, was a British courtier and Whig politician. He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1830 and 1834 and as Tre ...

, in 1881. One of their daughters,

Susan Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and severa ...

, married

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. As a ...

.Obituary, ''

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'', 9 August 1940 Miss Stillman by Caroline Grosvenor 1893-4

Grosvenor wrote three novels: ''The Bands of Orion'', ''The Thornton Device'', and ''Laura'' (with her older brother,

Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926), was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1916, shortly before he was raised to the peerage. He serve ...

). Also with her brother Charles, in 1926 she wrote a two-volume family history: ''The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family (1779–1856)''. She was a well known

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and

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painter. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women, which later amalgamated with the Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women, a subsidiary of the

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. As the war ended, the Women's Farm and Garden Union, which had created the

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, considered its future. One idea was to ready women for emigration but the chair "Mrs Norman Grosvenor" minuted that they would embark on a scheme of establishing small holdings for women. With the backing of the union,

Louisa Wilkins Louisa Wilkins OBE, also known as Mrs Roland Wilkins (born Louisa Jebb; 8 August 1873 – 1929) was a British writer and agricultural administrator. She was involved in the creation and recruitment for the Women's Land Army during World War One. ...

and

Katherine Courtauld Katherine Mina Courtauld (1856 - 1935) was a British farmer and suffragist. She was an advocate for providing training about agriculture for women. She was a member of the Courtauld family. Personal life Courtauld was born on 13 July 1856 at H ...

established a set of small holdings in 1920 on Wire Mill Lane in

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. Grosvenor was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for her services to emigrant British women.

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