Sarah Wilson (war correspondent)


Sarah Wilson

1893 photograph of Lady Sarah by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett, whole-plate glass negative
Born(1865-07-04)4 July 1865
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
Died22 October 1929(1929-10-22) (aged 64)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Noble familySpencer-Churchill
Spouse(s)
(m. 1891; died 1914)
IssueRandolph Gordon Wilson
FatherJohn Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
MotherLady Frances Anne Vane
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OccupationWar correspondent

Lady Sarah Wilson DStJ RRC (born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill; 4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929) became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Boer War.