# Edith Crowdy

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{{Short description|Deputy director of Women's Royal Naval Service}}
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| name                = Edith Crowdy
| honorific_suffix    = CBE
| image               = The Women's Royal Naval Service on the Home Front, 1917-1918 Edith Crowdy, Deputy Director.jpg
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| birth_name          = Edith Frances Crowdy
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1880|08|25|df=y}}
| birth_place         = 79 Victoria Road, Wandsworth, London, UK
| death_date          = {{Death date and age|1947|07|23|1880|08|25|df=y}}
| death_place         = Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK
| allegiance          = United Kingdom
| branch              = Women's Royal Naval Service
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| rank                = Deputy Director
}}

'''Edith Frances Crowdy''' [CBE](/source/CBE) (25 August 1880 – 23 July 1947) was the deputy director of the [Women's Royal Naval Service](/source/Women's_Royal_Naval_Service),<ref>[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/121077-edith-frances-crowdy-womens-royal-naval-service/ Edith Frances Crowdy profile], greatwarforum.org. Accessed 6 October 2022.</ref> and served as the first general secretary of the [World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts](/source/World_Association_of_Girl_Guides_and_Girl_Scouts).

She was born on 25 August 1880 at 79 Victoria Road, [Wandsworth](/source/Wandsworth), London, one of the four daughters of solicitor James Crowdy and his wife, Mary Isabel Anne ({{nee}} Fuidge).<ref>{{Cite ODNB |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/62129 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/62129| title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| year=2004}}</ref><ref>Who Was Who: CROWDY, Edith Frances, CBE 1919; 3rd d. of late James and Isabel Crowdy; unmarried; died 23 July 1947. Hon. Serving Sister Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1917. Education: Home. Career: VAD, 1912-17; Deputy Director, Women's Royal Naval Service, 1917-19; Secretary, Hellenic Travellers' Club, 1926-39. Recreation: Reading and music. Clubs: University Women's, Ex-Service Women's. Address: 100 Beaufort St, Chelsea, SW. Aled</ref><ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&so=3&msT=1&gsln=Crowdy&MSAV=1&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&gl=39&sbo=t&gsbco=Sweden&noredir=true UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970 Soldier, Veteran & Prisoner Rolls & Lists], ancestry.co.uk. Accessed 6 October 2022.</ref> Of her sisters, Dame [Rachel Crowdy](/source/Rachel_Crowdy) was Principal Commandant of Voluntary Aid Detachments in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1919, and [Isabel Crowdy](/source/Isabel_Crowdy), OBE, was the Assistant Director Inspector of Training, Women's Royal Navy Service from 1918.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mason |first1=Ursula Stuart |title=Britannia's Daughters |date=2012 |publisher=Pen and Sword |location=Barnsley, UK |isbn=9781783032778 |at=c. 1, para. 34}}</ref> Her brother, James Fuidge Crowdy, [MVO](/source/Royal_Victorian_Order), was Assistant Secretary to the [Governor General of Canada](/source/Governor_General_of_Canada). Edith's remaining sister was Mary Crowdy, CBE.<ref>{{cite news |title=James F. Crowdy dies at hospital in his 58th year |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4547907/the_ottawa_journal/ |accessdate=4 February 2020 |work=The Ottawa Journal |date=30 April 1934 |location=Ottawa, Ontario |page=26}}</ref>

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Category:Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire

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