Edith Sclater

Dame Edith Harriet, Lady Sclater, DBE (née Barttelot; 24 March 1856 – 29 March 1927) was a British dame.

Sclater was born in Petworth into an ancient Sussex family. She was the second but eldest surviving daughter of Sir Walter Barttelot, who was created a baronet in 1875, and Harriet Musgrave, daughter of Rev. Sir Christopher Musgrave, 9th Baronet.[1][2]

She married General Sir Henry Crichton Sclater, son of James Henry Sclater, on 12 June 1884. The union was childless.[1]

During the First World War, she operated Lady Sclater's Work Room and Smokes Fund, for which she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours.[3]

Sir Henry Crichton Sclater died on 26 September 1923. She died on 29 March 1927 of heart failure following pneumonia in London.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 283. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 95. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "No. 30460". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 January 1918. p. 367.
  4. ↑ Staff (30 March 1927). "Deaths". The Times. London, England. p. 1.
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