Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Hilda M. A. Squire and family, letters and papers
Classmark: MS 973
Creator(s): Squire, Hilda Martha Lilian (1898-1991)()
Date(s): 1836-1991
Language: English
Size and medium: 42 items in 2 envelopes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5964
Description
Hilda Squire was a hospital almoner. She was the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who had been interested in issues of public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was physician to Lord Cardigan (of the Crimean campaign). The papers were donated to the Library in April 1992, by Elizabeth Ray, at the request of the Hilda Squire's executors. She had died in December 1991, at the age of 93.
Contents include: (item 1) Letter from Elizabeth Wilkinson to her parents about her education, Leeds, 22 December 1836; (item 9) Fragment of diary of Agnes Mary Squire, 1878, referring to the arrival of Cleopatra's Needle in London, 3 ff.; (item 11) Some recollections of my young days by Agnes Mary Christy (née Squire), ca.1948, 13 ff.; (item 15) Letter of condolence from Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein to M. L. Squire, 12 June 1917; (item 23) Letter from Beatrice Webb to Rose E. Squire, Liphook, Hants., 11 June 1927.
Biography or history
Hilda Martha Lilian Squire was born in Ealing, on 19 February 1898 the daughter of a London doctor, Edward Squire, who was interested in public health and hygiene. Her grandfather, Dr. William Squire, was physician to Lord Cardigan (of the Crimean campaign). Hilda Squire travelled to Sri Lanka and China in the 1920s. In the 1930s she was working as a hospital almoner in London. During the Second World War Hilda Squire was an Air Raid Warden. She died in Hove on 25 November 1991. Agnes Mary Christy (née Squire) was Hilda's paternal aunt.
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