Edith Frances Crowdy

Edith Francis Crowdy CBE (25 August 1880 – 23 July 1947) was the Deputy Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service,[1] and served as the first general secretary of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

Edith Frances Crowdy

CBE
Born(1880-08-25)25 August 1880
79 Victoria Road, Wandsworth, London
Died23 July 1947(1947-07-23) (aged 66)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchWomen's Royal Naval Service
RankDeputy Director

She was born on 25 August 1880 at 79 Victoria Road, Wandsworth, London, one of the four daughters of solicitor James Crowdy and his wife, Mary Isabel Anne Fuidge.[2][3][4] Of her sisters, Rachel was Principal Commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachments in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919 and Isabel was the Assistant Director Inspector of Training, Women's Royal Navy Service from 1918.[5] Her brother, James Fuidge Crowdy, was Assistant Secretary to the Governor General of Canada and her niece was married to James Kenneth Weir, 2nd Viscount Weir of Eastwood. Edith's remaining sister was Mary Crowdy, CBE.[6]

References
  1. Jane Carmichael's book First World War Photographers referred to at https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/121077-edith-frances-crowdy-womens-royal-naval-service/
  2. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62129.
  3. Who Was Who: CROWDY, Edith Frances, CBE 1919; 3rd d. of late James and Isabel Crowdy; unmarried; died 23 July 1947. Hon. Serving Sister Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1917. Education: Home. Career: VAD, 1912-17; Deputy Director, Women's Royal Naval Service, 1917-19; Secretary, Hellenic Travellers' Club, 1926-39. Recreation: Reading and music. Clubs: University Women's, Ex-Service Women's. Address: 100 Beaufort St, Chelsea, SW. Aled
  4. UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970 Soldier, Veteran & Prisoner Rolls & Lists http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&so=3&msT=1&gsln=Crowdy&MSAV=1&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&gl=39&sbo=t&gsbco=Sweden&noredir=true
  5. Mason, Ursula Stuart (2012). Britannia’s Daughters. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword. c. 1, para. 34. ISBN 9781783032778.
  6. "James F. Crowdy dies at hospiral in his 58th year". The Ottawa Journal. Ottawa, Ontario. 30 April 1934. p. 26. Retrieved 4 February 2020.

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