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Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedford

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She was also noted for her role as an advocate for penal reform. After the war she continued to work for those wounded in the war and she died of heart failure in 1920 after suffering from influenza. She was left a £400 annuity for her secretary, Fannie Gallaher, after she died, she had no children
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was born and her mother gave her the first name of Adeline after Russell. She became the Duchess of Bedford in 1891, when George became the 10th Duke of Bedford. She was always a philanthropist as this kind of work was available to women. She worked with the
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During the first World War she was Chair of the European War Fund. The fund had been created by the Ambulance Department of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the Red cross. She worked tirelessly for the wounded and she made numerous visits to the
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to find out more. Her reports gathered together the political parties and within a year the Portuguese had released their prisoners and Adeline was seen as the catalyst. Shortly after this war broke out.
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to inspect conditions and to interview the wounded soldiers. She was disappointed to find that all the soldiers reported on their failure to take new ground. For this she was appointed
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until in 1913 she came to notice after she was shocked by a report in the papers about the mistreatment of political prisoners in
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Ford, Colin; Cameron, Julia Margaret Pattle; Cameron, Julia Margaret (2003).
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and worked on a scheme to support poor women and prostitutes around
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Lady Adeline Marie Somers was born in 1852 to Virginia (Pattle) and
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Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in England
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Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
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Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
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Index

Her Grace
GBE

George Charles Beresford
London
Chenies
Buckinghamshire
Penal reform
George Russell, 10th Duke of Bedford
Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers
GBE
penal reform
First World War
Charles Somers-Cocks, Viscount Eastnor
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Stephen
George Sackville Russell
Virginia Woolf
Associated Workers' League
Victoria Station
Fannie Gallaher
prisons
Portugal
Lisbon
Western Front
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in England
Chenies
Buckinghamshire
Julia Margaret Cameron: A Critical Biography

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