STREATFEILD, Lucy Anne Evelyn, d 1950, neé Deane, public servant

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 STREATFEILD
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: STREATFEILD, Lucy Anne Evelyn, d 1950, neé Deane, public servant
Date(s)	: 1881-1950
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Streatfeild | Lucy Anne Evelyn | d 1950 | neé Deane | public servant

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born [1860]; HM Senior Inspector of Factories, [1893-1897]; Member, War Office Commission of Enquiry into Concentration Camps during the Boer War, 1901-1902; Member, Royal Commission on the Civil Service; first female Organising Officer, National Health Insurance Commission, London; Member, Commission of Enquiry into the Conditions of the Women's Army Auxilary Corps in France; Member, Kent Executive Committee of the Women's Land Army; Vice-Chairman, Kent Council of Social Service; married Granville Edward Stewart Streatfeild in 1911; died 1950.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Lucy Anne Evelyn Streatfeild (Deane), 1891-1950, including unofficial business diaries recording her work as an inspector of workshops and factories for Kensington Vestry and the Home Office, 1893-1897, incorporating cuttings and memoranda relating to conditions of employment, 1891-1914; correspondence concerning work for the Boer War Concentration Camp Commission, 1901-1902, with press cuttings and photographs; material relating to work on other committees, 1893-1930, including the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps Commission of Enquiry, the Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, the Kent Billeting Committee and the Westerham National Service Committee; personal material, 1881-1950, notably a memoranda book containing press cuttings and photographs relating to her family, articles and papers, family photographs, letters of sympathy on her death in 1950, and appreciations of her life and work by various, including Violet Markham.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged as outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. Microfilm copy available.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright is retained by the depositor. The diaries are only available on microfilm.

Finding aids:

Printed handlist and on-line catalogue available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Given by Dr Martin Wright in 1986.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Mary Drake McFeely Lady Inspectors (Blackwells, London, 1988).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996; Historical Manuscripts Commission National Register of Archives. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2001