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Lady Helen Cynthia Colville, née Crewe-Milnes, DCVO, DBE, FRCM, JP (20 May 1884 – 15 June 1968) was an English courtier and social worker, serving as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, while at the same time devoting her energies to alleviating the suffering of Shoreditch, one of the poorest areas of the East End of London. ==Family== Helen Cynthia Crewe-Milnes was the third daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe〔(thepeerage.com Sir John Rupert Colville )〕 by his first wife, the former Sibyl Graham, daughter of Sir Frederick Graham (of the Graham Baronets of Netherby) and Lady Jane St Maur. Lady Sibyl died young, and her children lived for a time with their unmarried uncle the 3rd Baron Crewe, rejoining their father, a Liberal politician, when he was posted to Dublin as Gladstone's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (from 1892–95). Robert Crewe-Milnes re-married, choosing Margaret Margaret Etrenne Hannah "Peggy" Primrose (1881-1951), daughter of Lord Rosebery, Liberal Prime Minister (1894-1895), and his wife, Hannah, an heiress to the Rothschild fortune. Lady Margaret "Peggy" Crewe, Cynthia's stepmother, was appointed, upon her 39th birthday (1 January 1920), as one of the first women magistrates in Britain for the County of London.〔(Lady Margaret Primrose profile )〕 Cynthia and her stepmother were but three years apart in age. Her mother's siblings, Cynthia's uncles and aunts, included Violet Hermione, who married Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose; Margaret Frances, who married as her second husband James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam; and Hilda Georgina, who married Tory politician George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham. Helen Cynthia married the Hon. George Charles Colville, younger son of the 1st Viscount Colville of Culross and the Hon. Cecile Carrington, on 21 January 1908. Their children were: *David Richard Colville (b. 11 May 1909 – d. 9 February 1987) *Major Philip Robert Colville (b. 7 November 1910 – d. 11 April 1997) *Sir John Rupert Colville (b. 28 January 1915 – d. 1987), the diarist 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「Lady Cynthia Colville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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