Evelyn Margaret Crosskey (1893-1979), née Nettlefold. Photographer: A. Clara Cooper. MS876, Cadbury Research Library
Evelyn Crosskey was born in Birmingham, 11 October 1893. Her parents were Margaret Nettlefold (1871-1949), née Chamberlain, designer and John Sutton Nettlefold (1866-1930), social reformer and town planning pioneer, of Winterbourne House, Edgbaston. Educated at Edgbaston High School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge, she had a long-standing active involvement with the British Federation of University Women (now British Federation of Women Graduates) and National Council of Women. During the First World War she served as a recruiting officer with the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in Cardiff, Wales. She was Labour councillor for Washwood Heath, Birmingham 1945-1963, Alderman 1963-1971 and made an Honorary Member of the Council of the City of Birmingham in October 1971. She was chairman of the Board of Harborne Tenants Ltd and its first president. In 1918, she married John Henry Crosskey (1892-1951), MC who went on to graduate from the Medical School of the University of Birmingham in 1920. They had four children: Margaret Alice (b 1919), Roger Bensley (1921-1942), Henry Evelyn (b 1923) and Philip Harben (1926-2009). Evelyn died in Northampton, 7 July 1979. Cadbury Research Library has been unable to contact a copyright holder for this image; we shall be pleased to receive any information about it.
Text by Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
MS876
Evelyn Margaret Crosskey (1893-1979), née Nettlefold. Photographer: A. Clara Cooper. MS876, Cadbury Research Library
Evelyn Crosskey was born in Birmingham, 11 October 1893. Her parents were Margaret Nettlefold (1871-1949), née Chamberlain, designer and John Sutton Nettlefold (1866-1930), social reformer and town planning pioneer, of Winterbourne House, Edgbaston. Educated at Edgbaston High School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge, she had a long-standing active involvement with the British Federation of University Women (now British Federation of Women Graduates) and National Council of Women. During the First World War she served as a recruiting officer with the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in Cardiff, Wales. She was Labour councillor for Washwood Heath, Birmingham 1945-1963, Alderman 1963-1971 and made an Honorary Member of the Council of the City of Birmingham in October 1971. She was chairman of the Board of Harborne Tenants Ltd and its first president. In 1918, she married John Henry Crosskey (1892-1951), MC who went on to graduate from the Medical School of the University of Birmingham in 1920. They had four children: Margaret Alice (b 1919), Roger Bensley (1921-1942), Henry Evelyn (b 1923) and Philip Harben (1926-2009). Evelyn died in Northampton, 7 July 1979. Cadbury Research Library has been unable to contact a copyright holder for this image; we shall be pleased to receive any information about it.
Text by Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
MS876