War Office

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Godley
John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles , was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Kelly
Her son William Martin Kelly turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion...
Family and Intimate relationships Daisy Ashford
DA 's father, William Henry Roxburghe Ashford (1836-1912), was a former official at the War Office .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
After he married Emma, Willie's step-children referred to him as father and they grew very fond of him...
Family and Intimate relationships Ray Strachey
RS 's husband had a nine-year-old daughter, Julia , from a previous marriage. He had been working for the railways in India, but was often unemployed until the First World War, when he began work...
Employer Rosita Forbes
Having made several lecture tours in the USA (where she also sold as much journalistic writing as she could), she gave official lectures for the War Office in the Caribbean, the USA, and Canada...
Employer Ruth Pitter
During the first world war RP went to work as a temporary junior clerk at the War Office . The only part of this job she enjoyed was brewing the tea for fifty people. (She...

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