Distinguished Woman Worker: Lady Simon spoke at the invitation of the British Women’s Patriotic League, which organizes several lectures in the course of a year, usually holding them in that supremely comfortable Mecca of intellectual women, the Forum Club. The league’s next lecture, Miss Mackinnon, the secretary, tells me, will be delivered on May 4 by Mrs. Pinsent who has chosen for her subject “Mental Defects.” Mrs. Pinsent is in a unique position to throw a penetrating light on this absorbing topic, for she is the only woman Commissioner of Lunacy in the country.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949