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Alice Hannah Holford (12 November 1867 – 22 December 1966) was a New Zealand nurse, midwife and hospital matron. Early life. Holford was born in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. Her parents were Captain J.A. Holford, Port Taranaki's harbour master, and Alice Holford, née Brooking.
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- Early Life and Family
- Marriage and Children
- Viceregal Consort of Canada
- Charitable Activities in Canada
- Later Life
Lady Grey was born Alice Holford, the youngest of four children of Robert Stayner Holford and Mary Anne Lindsay. Her father was a prominent landowner, a Conservative member of Parliament for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and a prolific collector of fine art and botanical specimens. Her mother was the granddaughter of Sir Coutts Trotter, th...
The Holford family made frequent visits to Italy to acquire art. On one of those trips, Alice met Albert Grey, the future 4th Earl Grey. According to Grey’s biographer, Harold Begbie, “She was almost a child when he fell in love with her at their first meeting in Florence. She was only eighteen when they married.” The wedding took place on 9 June 1...
Lady Grey accompanied Earl Grey to Canada in 1904 when he succeeded his brother-in-law, Lord Minto, as governor general. Lady Grey was the first viceregal consort to be styled officially as “Your Excellency,” a practice that continues to the present day. The couple’s two youngest surviving daughters, Sybil and Evelyn, accompanied their parents to C...
Lady Grey supported numerous philanthropic organizations in Canada, focusing on emigration to Canada, women’s health, landscape gardening and antiquities; these reflected her own interests and those of her family. She was president of the Lady Aberdeen Association for Distribution of Literature to Settlers in the West, which provided books and maga...
Lady Grey continued to support nursing and hospitals during the First World War. She encouraged her daughter, Lady Sybil, to establish the Anglo-Russian hospital in Saint Petersburg, a gift from the British dominions to their First World War ally, the Russian Empire. The hospital remained active until the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lady Grey was w...
Grey se casó con Alice Holford (m. 22 de septiembre de 1944), hija de Robert Stayner Holford, de Westonbirt House (Gloucestershire) y Dorchester House (Londres) el 9 de junio de 1877 y tuvo cinco hijos, uno de los cuales murió en la primera infancia:
Believing nursing to be the profession ‘which next to motherhood, is…the highest ideal for women’, Alice Holford fought many campaigns to improve and safeguard its status and assisted Neill in designing the registration medal.
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Alice Holford (died 1455) was an English bailiff of London Bridge for 25 years. She was a rare example of a woman in authority in the fifteenth century. Life. Holford was married to Nicholas Holford, who was the bailiff of London Bridge. When he died in 1433 she took over the job.
