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Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston, DBE (née Radmall; 8 April 1857 – 29 December 1936) was a British philanthropist, fascist sympathizer, political activist and suffragist.
1 de out. de 2021 · Although she has been regarded as an aviation pioneer, only a handful of people know about Dame Fanny Lucy Houston. In fact, without Lady Houston, the Battle of Britain might have been entirely different. Here is the little-known story of how Lucy Houston saved the Spitfire from becoming obsolete.
Lucy Houston was made a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in 1917 for founding a rest home for nurses during World War I. Following Lord Byron's death that same year, 60-year-old Houston turned her attention to 65-year-old Sir Robert Paterson Houston, a Liverpool shipowner and robber baron.
Lady Lucy Houston, proprietor of the weekly Saturday Review, was watching Mosley’s progress carefully. Now in her late seventies and one of England’s richest women, she had dedicated her last years to the support and promotion of Britain and the Empire.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Lucy, Lady Houston, was now one of the wealthiest women in Britain, and could have settled back to a life of ease in her houses, her Scottish shooting lodge or on her yacht, but she didn’t.
5 de out. de 2022 · Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston wasn’t born with those titles. She was actually born in 1857 into a large, working class family in London. She later became a professional dancer and chorus girl who married into a wealthy family and received a large inheritance when her husband died.
5 de out. de 2021 · However, there are several women who were instrumental in the success of the iconic Spitfire plane, and we are taking a look at their stories here. Lady Lucy Houston. This eccentric, vivacious woman was one of the main reasons behind the development of the Spitfire plane.
