Maria Ridout
Mrs Maria Ridout (née Corp) 1814-188 Mrs Ridout and the Coombe Express by Frank Brooks (1854 – 1937) With kind permission of the Salisbury & South
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Ela Countess of Salisbury
Ela of Salisbury has been referred to as a ‘towering female figure’ who left an important legacy that lives on even today, over 800 years later.
Mary Sidney Herbert
Mary Herbert Countess of Pembroke, was one of the most influential literary figures of the Renaissance era
Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly
Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly (known as Annie) 1846–1937 Portrait by Samuel Henry William Llewellyn St Hugh’s College University Of Oxford Annie was the daughter
Margaret Duncan
Margaret Duncan was the first Lady superintendent of Salisbury Training School (later Sarum St Michael)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her detective fiction but she was much more than a popular novelist
Sarah Maria Fawcett
By Dr Jane Howells Maria Fawcett (1830-1923) was a member of the Fawcett family prominent in Salisbury. She never married, lived in or near Salisbury
Joan Popley
Joan Popley made a bequest property to support the poor of Salisbury which has lasted down the ages
Dorothy Lawrence
The only English woman soldier in the Royal Engineers 51st Division 79th Tunnelling Co. She is also remembered as the only woman who fought in the First World War disguised as a man.
Mary Alice Douglas
Mary Alice Douglas was a suffragist, educationalist and headmistress of Godolphin school for more than 30 years
Margaret Sarah Carpenter
Margaret was a portrait painter who painted the great and the good including Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer programming
Martha Cranmer Oliver
Martha or Patti as she was also known was an well known actress and theatre manager described as ‘…one of the most refined and accomplished actress[es] of her day’.