Lyttelton, Edith (1865–1948)

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Lyttelton, Edith (1865–1948)

English activist and playwright. Name variations: Dame Edith Lyttelton. Born Edith Balfour, 1865, in England; died Sept 2, 1948; dau. of Archibald Balfour; m. Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, MP, 1892; children: Oliver Lyttelton.

Served on committees for intellectual cooperation, Stratford Memorial Theatre, women's employment, war refugees, and waste reclamation; was president of the Society for Psychical Research (1933–34) and substitute delegate to League of Nations Assembly (1923, 1926–28, 1931); wrote biographies of her husband, as well as Our Superconscious Mind and Some Cases of Prediction and such plays as Warp and Woof, The Macleans of Bairness, The Thumbscrew and Peter's Chance. Made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

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