Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

The Baroness Stocks
Stocks in 1938
Born
Mary Danvers Brinton

(1891-07-25)25 July 1891
London, England
Died6 July 1975(1975-07-06) (aged 83)
Kensington, London, England
OccupationWriter
Known forInvolvement with women's suffrage, welfare state, and social work
Spouse
(m. 1913; died 1937)
Children3
RelativesTim Brinton (cousin)
Baroness Brinton (cousin)

Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks (née Brinton; 25 July 1891 – 6 July 1975) was a British writer. She was closely associated with the Strachey, the Wedgwood and the Ricardo families. Her family was deeply involved in changes in the Victorian Era and Stocks herself was deeply involved in women's suffrage, the welfare state, and other aspects of social work.[1]

  1. ^ Majority of detail taken from a book called My Commonplace Book published by Peter Davies London 1971 reprint of the first 1970 edition with an ISBN 0-432-15750-6