Hope Elizabeth Hope-Clarke

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(February 1870 – 19 July 1950) was a British charity campaigner, the founder and honorary organiser of the Silver Thimble Fund, "one of the most successful charities of the First World War". Hope Elizabeth Hope-Clarke was born in February 1870, in

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. A few years after the war ended, Hope-Clarke moved to the United States and settled in

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, where she befriended Martha Gilmore Robinson, who set up the Silver Thimble Fund of America, which helped injured British and American soldiers in the Second World War. Hope-Clarke was awarded an

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in the

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List. Hope-Clarke died in London on 19 July 1950, at the age of 80.

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1870 births 1950 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empire British charity and campaign group workers British women activists Activists from Kolkata British people in colonial India Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{UK-activist-stub