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Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall (British; Female; 1880 - 1958)

Nan Ino Cooper, (born on june 13th 1880)she succeeded to the titles of her brother, Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall ; the titles descending in the female as well as the male line. Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall (British; Female; 1880 - 1958)

She was the daughter of Hon Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert and Lady Florence Amabell Cowper. She married Howard Lister Cooper on 30 April 1917. She died on 23 November 1958 at age 78. On 7 September 1907 she was granted the rank of a baron's daughter.She was born in blandford,dorset. Nan was said to be an ‘ardent theosophist’, interested in mystical and occult religions. Once she gave away a house in the New Forest that she had inherited to the ‘Purple Lotus Mother’ of the ‘Universal Brotherhood’ for a theosophist school. She lived for a while in the early 1900s in Cuba where she was director of the Cuba Raja Yoga School, part of a chain of theosophist schools.

how she got there ? After training as a nurse in London, when WW1 broke out in 1914 she took over the setting up and running of her family home, Wrest Park, as a hospital for wounded soldiers. It was the first and probably the best-run of the country house hospitals. Nan hired twenty nurses, noting in her diary: ‘an assortment of nurses came and went – two or three who drank, one who took drugs, stewardesses who wanted to do war work, and probationers who preferred sharing a chair with a patient to finding an empty one’. When there was no matron available, Nan took that on role too. In her diary she wrote: ‘No one had a matron in view, nobody could find one; so finally it was settled I was to step into the post experimentally, and retain it subject to the approval of the medical staff. My dream that night of a huge wave with crest breaking mountains high over my head, expressed my feelings’.