Caroline Grosvenor
Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor CBE was a British novelist and artist.
The daughter of the philanthropist Jane Stuart-Wortley and the politician James Stuart-Wortley, she was born in Westminster, London, and married Norman Grosvenor, son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, in 1881. One of their daughters, Susan, married John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Grosvenor wrote three novels: The Bands of Orion, The Thornton Device, and Laura. Also with her brother Charles, in 1926 she wrote a two-volume family history: The first Lady Wharncliffe and her family . She was a well known miniature and watercolour painter. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women, which later amalgamated with the Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women, a subsidiary of the Colonial Office.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 New Year Honours for her services to emigrant British women.Footnotes
