Caroline Grosvenor
British artist
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| Intro | British artist | ||
| A.K.A. | Miss Caroline Stewart-Wortley Caroline Stuart-Wortley Caroline H. Norman Hon. Mrs. Norman G. Grosvenor Caroline Stuart-Wortley Grosvenor | ||
| A.K.A. | Miss Caroline Stewart-Wortley Caroline Stuart-Wortley Caroline H. Norman Hon. Mrs. Norman G. Grosvenor Caroline Stuart-Wortley Grosvenor | ||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | ||
| is | Writer Painter Novelist | ||
| Work field | Arts Literature | ||
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| Death | 7 August 1940 | ||
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Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor CBE (née Stuart-Wortley; 15 June 1858 – 7 August 1940) 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 (died 1898), 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 (with her older brother, Charles Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley). 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 (CBE) in the 1920 New Year Honours for her services to emigrant British women.