Joan Marsham

Joan Marsham
Dame (Muriel) Joan Marsham (née Warry), 1913
Born
Muriel Joan Warry

4 January 1888
Marylebone, London, England, UK
Died13 March 1972 (aged 84)[1]
London, England, UK
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhilanthropist
Known forChairman of the executive committee of the Girl Guides Association
Parents
  • William Taylor Warry (1836-1906) (father)
  • Eliza Jane Gosling (1851-1935) (mother)
AwardsSilver Fish Award

Dame Muriel Joan Marsham (née Warry; 4 January 1888 – 13 March 1972), DBE, was a British philanthropist and chairman of the executive committee of the Girl Guides Association from 1938 to 1948. She was Chair of the National Women's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association (founded in Britain in 1918) from 1931 until her death in 1972.

Background

Born as Muriel Joan Warry, the daughter of William Warry of Shapwick, Somerset, England, she married the Hon. Sydney Edward Marsham (son of Charles Marsham, 4th Earl of Romney and Lady Frances Augusta Constance Muir Rawdon-Hastings) on 2 February 1911. The couple had one child.

Honours

She was awarded the OBE and later was elevated to DBE in 1945 "for public services".[2]

She was awarded the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour, in the 1940s.

Family

  • Husband: Hon. Sydney Edward Marsham (b. 29 December 1879 — d. 6 January 1952)
  • Child: Lt.-Col. Peter William Marsham (b. 8 June 1913 — d. 3 November 1970)
married, in 1946, to Hersey (née Coke; 1915 — 2012) and had the following children:

References

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  2. ^ London Gazette Issue 37119, 8 June 1945, page 20