Sir John Swinburne

ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...

The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and...