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Colonel in Chief of the Women's Volunteer Reserve (WVR). The WVR was a force of volunteer women formed to replace the men who had joined the forces and were fighting at the front.  She was a friend of the first Labour Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald and was a noted gardener, writer and editor.

Lady Edith died aged 80 at Mount Stewart, County Down, Norther Ireland.

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