Lucy, Lady Houston

Dame
Lucy Houston
DBE
Born
Fanny Lucy Radmall

(1857-04-08)8 April 1857
Lambeth, London, England
Died29 December 1936(1936-12-29) (aged 79)
Highgate, London, England
Other namesPoppy Radmall
Known forAviation pioneer, newspaper publisher
Spouses
  • Theodore Francis Brinckman
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    (m. 1883; div. 1895)​
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    (m. 1901; died 1917)​
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    (m. 1924; died 1926)​

Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, Lady Houston, DBE (née Radmall; 8 April 1857 – 29 December 1936) was a British philanthropist, fascist sympathizer, political activist and suffragist.[1]

Beginning in 1933, she published the Saturday Review,[1] which was best known for its attacks on what the paper labelled the "unpatriotic" National Governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. She has been acknowledged as an aviation pioneer and "the saviour of the Spitfire" because of her support for its predecessor, the Supermarine seaplane.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Astonishing Exploits of England's "Lady Bountiful"". Milwaukee Sentinel. 7 February 1937.
  2. ^ Almond, Peter (15 September 2010). "Saviour of the Spitfire". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2020.