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Lady Sybil Grey OBE (15 July 1882 – 4 June 1966) was a British philanthropist and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse.
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- Newcastle Royal Infirmary
- 4 June 1966 (aged 83)
Ellen Sophia Taylor (3 January 1860 – 20 August 1939), known professionally as Sybil Grey, was a British singer and actress during the Victorian era best known for creating a series of minor roles in productions by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including roles in several of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas, from 1880 to 1888.
For the first in a series commemorating World War I and its impact on the region, we look at the inspirational Lady Sybil Grey who transformed Howick Hall in Northumberland into a wartime hospital, then travelled across Europe to help soldiers in need
24 de ene. de 2019 · In the latest instalment of our occasional series profiling remarkable yet unheralded characters from history, Simon Boyd introduces Lady Sybil Grey, an indomitable Englishwoman who, as a nurse in Russia, led a field hospital and had a grandstand view of the February 1917 revolution that toppled the tsar
9 de jul. de 2020 · Sybil Grey (that is how she signed herself) went to Russia to establish a British volunteer hospital in Petrograd (today St Petersburg). The Anglo-Russian Hospital, established to treat only ordinary Russian soldiers, was Britain’s gift to its Russian ally in World War One.
26 de dic. de 2017 · Lady Sybil: Empire, War and Revolution, is the story of Lady Sybil Grey’s life, movingly told by her grandson, Simon Boyd, using her own words from contemporary letters and diaries. She helped set up and run the hospital in Petrograd, met the Tsarina, was wounded at the front, sheltered the assassin of Rasputin and witnessed the ...
11 de nov. de 2018 · During her time in Russia, Lady Sybil led a field hospital to the front where she was wounded in the face by a hand grenade. After shrapnel hit her in the face, becoming embedded in her skull,...
