Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon

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Lady Willingdon

A 1916 charity stamp for the Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund organised by Lady Willingdon.

Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI, DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960)^{[citation needed]} was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey.^{[citation needed]} On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India.^{[citation needed]} They had two sons, Lieutenant Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas (3 May 1893 – 14 September 1914), killed, aged 21, in the First World War, and Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon (25 July 1899 – 19 March 1979).^{[citation needed]}

Honours[]

She was:

• Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917^[1]
• Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal^{[citation needed]}
• Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of Saint John (D.J.St. J.)^{[citation needed]}
• Decorated with the Order of Mercy.^[2]
• Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917^[3]
• Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours^[4]

Legacy[]

• Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island, is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia.^[5]
• The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, is named after her
• The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. www.manalihospital.com

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