Marie Galway

Lady Marie Galway, CBE, DStJ (5 January 1876  – 29 June 1963) was a British charity and civic worker and advocate for women's rights. She was married to Sir Henry Galway, Governor of South Australia.

Biography

Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne Blennerhassett was born at Mayfair, London, the only daughter of two leaders of the English liberal Catholic movement, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Irish baronet and parliamentarian, and his wife, Countess Charlotte Julia de Leyden, a biographer and historian from Bavaria, whom he had met when attending the First Vatican Council^[1][2]

Shortly after her marriage to Sir Henry Galway in 1914, she accompanied her husband to Adelaide on his appointment as Governor of South Australia. His term there (from 1914 to 1920) was controversial, including his stirring up war-time negative feeling against Australians of German descent, despite the fact that his wife was half-German. Lady Galway was active in civic affairs generally, but particularly in the advancement of women's rights in Britain.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

Marie Galway was awarded the Belgian Médaille de la Reine Elisabeth and the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française, and was appointed Dame of Grace of the Order of St John and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1926).^[2]

References

1. ^ The Past Revisited
2. ^ ^{a b} P.A., Howell (1996). "Galway, Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne (1876-1963)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140275b.htm. Retrieved 29 April 2009. 

Persondata
Name	Galway, Marie
Alternative names	Blennerhassett, Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne (birthname)
Short description	British women's rights activist
Date of birth	5 January 1876
Place of birth	Mayfair, London, England, UK
Date of death	29 June 1963
Place of death