Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2019 July 15

= July 15 =

Lady Wimborne's Hospital at Uskub
Our article Lancelot Barrington-Ward says that in the First World War he was Surgeon-in-Chief to Lady Wimborne's Hospital at Uskub. I would like to know more about Lady Wimborne and her hospital, thank you. DuncanHill (talk) 00:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC) - I've just changed Wimburne to Wimborne, there was a typo in our article. DuncanHill (talk) 00:34, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I suspect this is Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Guest, Baroness Wimborne, 1847-1927. She was born Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, and married Sir Ivor Bertie Guest (1st Baron Wimborne) in 1868. She set up a Serbian Relief Fund in 1915. - Nunh-huh 01:40, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, yes that must be her - mentioned here in the National Archives ("Members of Serbian Relief Fund Units sent to Serbia (including Lady (Ralph) Paget's Hospital; Cornelia Lady Wimborne's Hospital; Mrs Stobart's Hospital; 1st British Farmers' Hospital; 2nd British Farmers' Hospital)"), and here with a portrait. She had already set up a hospital in Poole. DuncanHill (talk) 08:42, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * More details of the organisation (mainly Lady Paget's) at Great War Forum - Serbian Relief Fund Hospital. Alansplodge (talk) 09:10, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * The Serbian hospital is also mentioned in this book: "...the second Serbian Relief Fund Unit, the Winborne unit--so named because Lady Cornelia Wimborne had raised the funds for it--had already gone out to Skoplje..."


 * Lots of her letters reprinted in various biographies of Winston Churchill, and she seems to have written to the editor lots too, about church issues - she had a "league for combating the introduction of ritualism into English Church". This one has a bit about her personality; she is portrayed as kind, generous and a peacemaker.


 * Brief biography in if you can get WP:RX to access full version for you. Here's Burke's Peerage entry (mother of nine). She lived at Canford Manor until 1923  and she had built 111 cottages for estate workers there.


 * Also keep seeing her in agricultural news, in some of those random bits that make historical research so fun: enthusiastic about rabbits and "has several greenhouses filled with hutches". Her herd of cows wins a trophy from the Dorset Milk Recording Society in 1921. Her husband had donated the trophy. Wasn't that a Downton Abbey plot? 70.67.193.176 (talk) 18:32, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Splendid work again! Very much appreciated. DuncanHill (talk) 20:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
 * You ask the most fun questions :) 70.67.193.176 (talk) 13:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)