Person Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

1848-1939 Louise Caroline Alberta was born on 18 March 1848, the sixth of child of Queen Victoria. She was taught modelling by Mary Thornycroft and enrolled at the National Art Training School, Kensington, in 1868, though her duties as the queen's social secretary prevented her attending regularly. She supported the women's movement and was the founding president of the Women's Education Union and she was patron of the Girls' Public Day School Company. Queen Victoria was alarmed by Louise's feminism and arranged an appropriate married for her with the marquess of Lorne in 1871. From 1878-1883, she was Lorne's consort as the governor general of Canada, but returned to Britain for a period of time after a sleigh accident in 1880. The Princess was also a patron in the art world as well as an artist, though there was a scandal in 1890 when she was in sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm's studio when he died of a heart attack. She supported Irish home rule, creation of life peers and appeasement in India, and encouraged her mother to work with the Liberal government. She care for her husband after hie became ill in 1911 and suffered at nervous breakdown after in death in 1914. At the outbreak of World War I, she threw herself into good works and was the president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Association, the Ladies' Work Society, and the National Trust. After the War she was appointed a DBE for her work and was also the president of 25 hospitals, often paying unscheduled visits to patients and staff. She died on 3 Dec 1939 at Kensington Palace. GB/366/610 Mark Stocker, ‘Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34601, accessed 24 Sept 2008] Deposited/Corporate/GDS/Patrons/Louise 24/09/2008 Mkklibyz 26/04/2010 Wrrlibya Louise Caroline Alberta; (1848-1939); Princess; Duchess of Argyll Louise Caroline Alberta; Female International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes ecbd8f72-5568-4118-ad02-b235088e3c4b