LADY HENRY SOMERSETS RETIREMENT.
Lady Henry Somerset has decided' te retire from public life and devote herself te private charity (says the "British Weekly"'). As president of the National British Women's Temperance Association and of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union she did pioneor work as a temperance reformer. Her charm of manner and extraordinary power of platform speech made her presidency a great factor in infusing the B.W.T.A. with enthusiasm. Her most characteristic practical achievement is the founding of the Industrial Farm Colony for Inebriates at Duxhuret, Reigate. She will make her last public appearance on. May 2nd, whan she will give a lecture on Joan of Arc in tho picture gnllery of Bridgwater House, the seat of Lord Eilesmere. Lady Somerset hopes shortly to open a nursing home for male mr ebriates in London.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12825, 8 June 1907, Page 7
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