Annie, Lady de Sausmarez

Annie Elizabeth, Lady de Sausmarez, GBE (née Mann; 1856 – 15 March 1947) was a British philanthropist who was president of the British Women's Work Association in China from 1914 to 1919. For this she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.

Lady de Sausmarez
GBE
Lady de Sausmarez, 1920
President of the British Women's Work Association in Shanghai
In office
1914–1919
Personal details
Born
Annie Elizabeth Mann

1856
Wyham cum Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England
Died15 March 1947(1947-03-15) (aged 90–91)
Guernsey
OccupationPhilanthropist

Sausmarez was born in Wyham cum Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England, the daughter of a clergyman Frederick William Mann from Guernsey and Eleanor Mary Pattison from Yorkshire.[1][2] She was the niece, through her mother of Mark Pattison, the Oxford academic.[3] The family moved back to Guernsey when she was young.[4][5]

In 1897, Sausmarez married Guernseyman Havilland de Sausmarez, a judge in the Foreign Office Judicial Service. He was a judge of the British Supreme Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire until 1905,[6] when he was knighted and appointed judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Korea (based in Shanghai).[6][7]

Between 1914 and 1919, Sausmarez served as the president of the British Women's Work Association in Shanghai.[6][8] She organized the war effort to supply British troops with bandages and clothing in September 1914 and by November had organized the Work Association's first shipment.[9] Under her leadership "hundreds of thousands of bandages, dressings, and hospital garments" were sent to the troops serving in Mesopotamia during the war.[10] For her service to the war effort, she was honoured as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1920.[11]

They lived in Shanghai until 1920, when they returned to Guernsey, where Sir Havilland served as Bailiff of Guernsey from 1922 to 1929.[6] Lady de Sausmarez died at her home in Guernsey, aged 90, on 15 March 1947 and was cremated after her services at St Martin's Parish Church, Guernsey on 18 March.[12]

Footnotes
  1. 1861 England Census
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837–1915
  3. Jones, H. Stuart (2007). Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-521-87605-6.
  4. 1871 Channel Islands Census
  5. 1881 Channel Islands Census
  6. "Obituaries: Sir Havilland de Sausmarez". The Times. No. 48936. London. 27 May 1941. p. 7. Gale Document Number CS118962363. Retrieved 29 March 2020. – via Gale (subscription required)
  7. "Whitehall, December 18, 1905" (PDF). The London Gazette. London. 19 December 1905. p. 9084. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  8. British Women's Work Association
  9. Arnander, Christopher; Wood, Frances (2016). Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-4738-7503-6.
  10. Proctor, Tammy M. (2010). Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918. New York, New York: New York University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8147-6780-1.
  11. "Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". The London Gazette. London. 1 June 1920. p. 6037. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  12. "Deaths". The Times. No. 50711. London. 17 March 1947. p. 1. Gale Document Number CS17253489. Retrieved 29 March 2020. – via Gale (subscription required)
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