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Diana Kingsmill Wright (1908 - 1982) was a Canadian athlete, journalist and activist.〔("Diana Kingsmill Wright" ). Saskatchewan Eco Network.〕 The daughter of Naval Service of Canada admiral Charles Kingsmill,〔 she was born in Ottawa, Ontario and raised and educated in Canada and England. In her youth, she was a competitive figure skater, who was a winner of the Devonshire Cup.〔"Canada in Switzerland". ''Winnipeg Tribune'', February 6, 1925.〕 She was later a member of the Canadian alpine skiing team at the 1936 Winter Olympics,〔"Ottawa Ski Star Chosen on Team". ''Ottawa Journal'', September 16, 1935.〕 and competed despite having suffered a broken hand.〔"Applaud Efforts Diana Lennox". ''Ottawa Journal'', February 8, 1936.〕 She married Victor Gordon-Lennox, the son of British politician Walter Gordon-Lennox, in 1932.〔"Diana Kingsmill Is Bride of Capt. Gordon-Lennox". ''Winnipeg Tribune'', December 28, 1932.〕 In this era she was a friend of actor David Niven,〔 who wrote about her in his autobiography ''The Moon Is a Balloon''. She returned to Ottawa in 1940 after separating from Gordon-Lennox.〔"Ottawa Women Enter Inter-City Ski Meet". ''Ottawa Journal'', January 27, 1940.〕 She remarried to historian J. F. C. Wright in 1944, in the Parliament Hill office of J. S. Woodsworth,〔("Biography - Wright, James Frederick Church" ). Saskatoon Public Library Local History Collections.〕 and moved with Wright to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.〔 Active in the Saskatchewan chapter of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Wrights became co-editors of ''Union Farmer'', the newspaper of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Union, in 1950.〔 In the 1960s, she was active in Voice of Women, and leased the Kingsmill family summer home on Grindstone Island to the Society of Friends to serve as a Quaker retreat centre and an institution for peace studies.〔"Rebels run retreat". ''Ottawa Citizen'', August 27, 1980.〕 She later served as editor of ''Environment Probe'',〔 and served on an advisory committee to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its coverage of agriculture and farming issues.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diana Kingsmill Wright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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