Eleanor Shelley-Rolls
Eleanor Shelley-Rolls | |
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Born | 9 October 1872 Mayfair, London |
Died | 15 September 1961 Westminster. London |
Occupation | Engineer |
Organization | Women's Engineering Society |
Eleanor Georgiana Shelley-Rolls (9 October 1872 – 15 September 1961) was one of the original signatories of the Women's Engineering Society founding documents. She was a keen hot air[citation needed] balloonist.
Early life[]
Rolls was born in Mayfair, London in 1872.[citation needed] She was the daughter of John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock and Georgiana Marcia Maclean. Her three brothers, Charles Rolls[1] John Maclean Rolls and Henry Allan Rolls all predeceased her, dying without issue, so she inherited the family estate The Hendre, near Monmouth.
Career[]
Rolls married John Courtown Edward Shelley in 1898, they both changed their surname legally to Shelley-Rolls in 1917 when she inherited the family estate at The Hendre on the death of her brother John, 2nd Baron Llangattock in 1916.[2] Before World War One, she and her husband flew in hot air[citation needed] balloons, often sharing a flight with May Assheton Harbord, the first woman to hold an Aeronaut's Certificate in UK.[3] The couple in one of the earliest Zeppelins, and in an early type of aeroplane in the pre war years.[4]
On 23 June 1919, she became one of the seven co-signatures of the Memorandum of Association for the formation of the Women's Engineering Society alongside Rachel Parsons; Lady Katharine Parsons; ; Margaret Rowbotham; Margaret, Lady Moir and Laura Annie Willson.[5] With Margaret Partridge, Shelley-Rolls canvassed support for electrification of Britain.[6] She attended the first statutory meeting of the Women's Engineering Society in 1920.[7] She remained on the Women's Engineering Society Advisory Council, was part of the Women's Engineering Society's 1925 . She acted as the Women's Engineering Society's representative on the Electrical Association for Women board.[8] She was a member of the Council Industrial Co-partnership, a member of the Air League and the .[9] She was also President of the Women's Pioneer Housing, and a school manager.[9]
She studied and wrote about the history of motoring[7] and in later life took up breeding of Welsh Black Cattle.[10]
In 1920, she founded Atlanta Co Ltd, Loughborough, with Katharine Parsons.[11][9] Atlanta Co Ltd only employed women, including Annette Ashberry.[12] She was the main beneficiary of Baron Llangattock's £1.1 million estate.[13][14][15] She died on 15 September 1961.[16]
References[]
- ^ "Where are the Wikipedia women? | Unbound". Unbound. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "John Allan ROLLS, 1st. Baron Llangattock b. 19 Feb 1837 "Hendre House", Llangatwg Feibion Afel, Monmouthshire, Wales d. 24 Sep 1912 "Hendre House", Llangatwg Feibion Afel, Monmouthshire, Wales: Some Silk Weavers and Stay Makers". wyndhammarsh.co.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Heald, Henrietta (2019). Magnificent women and their revolutionary machines. London. ISBN 978-1-78352-660-4. OCLC 1080083743.
- ^ "Western Mail". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. 28 January 1937. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Feminist campaigns and networks", Women and community action, second edition, Policy Press, 2006, pp. 101–134, doi:10.2307/j.ctt1t895mf.10, ISBN 9781447342441
- ^ Locker, Anne (2018). "Partridge, Margaret Mary (1891–1967), electrical engineer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110230. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "The Woman Engineer Vol 1". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "The Woman Engineer Vol 2". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Law, Cheryl (2000). Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I B Tauris & Co. Ltd. pp. 129–130.
- ^ "Western Mail". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. 24 July 1958. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "The Electrical Association for Women | European Feminist Research Conference, Graz University of Technology, Austria | Arts and culture". arts.brighton.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Loughborough History and Heritage Network | The life of Annette Ashberry – a pioneering Woman engineer". www.lboro-history-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Major Lord John Maclean Rolls 2nd Baron Llangattock | Christ Church, Oxford University". www.chch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Rolls family (Barons Llangattock), of The Hendre, documents [c. 1617]-1952GB0218.D361". www.gwentarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Clarke, Tom. "Holst in an unusual circle" (PDF). Holst Museum. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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