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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 ...
Willingdon College, Sangli, is a college named after the former Governor of Bombay, The 1st Baron Willingdon (who was later created The 1st Marquess of Willingdon). Lord Willingdon later served as Viceroy of India, from 1931 until 1936. The college was started on the morning of 22 June 1919 in the Sangli City. During this period, Centers of ...
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
From 1948 to 1958, she was at the Lady Doak College. [1] She worked as a teacher at the Capron Hall Secondary School in Madurai, with the headmistress Sister Noyes. [2] Wilcox also founded the OCPM School for girls and the Noyes School. [2] After much hard work, she raised funds to build the Lady Doak College in 1948. [1]
In 1922 she inaugurated the Lady Willingdon Training College and Practice School and was its first principal. [9] She also established the Srividya Kalanilayam, a school for adult women at Mylapore in 1942, [ 10 ] and while she was the president of the Mylapore Ladies Club, she formed the Mylapore Ladies Club School Society, in 1956, which was ...
Willingdon was the second son of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, and his wife Lady Marie Brassey, daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey.When his elder brother, Second Lieutenant Hon. Gerard Freeman-Thomas, was killed in action on 12 September 1914, he became heir apparent to his father. [1]
Lady Willingdon Hospital is a public hospital located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a teaching hospital of King Edward Medical College. It is one of the largest maternity hospitals in Pakistan. [1] Its history dates back to 1930 when Teka Devi Health Centre was opened as an outpatient clinic for women on the Fort Road, Lahore. [1]
The Royal Willingdon Sports Club (WSC) was founded in 1918 by Lord Willingdon, the then Governor of Bombay. [2] Willingdon was refused permission to take an Indian Maharaja with him to the Bombay Gymkhana, Byculla Club and Royal Bombay Yacht Club, [1] which at the time allowed only Europeans and hence, decided to start a club that both Indians and Europeans could go to.