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to wire the village hall for electricity. On 15 September 1962, the couple wrote a letter of "grandmotherly advice" on the joys of retirement to their fellow women engineers in WES, and listed designing and supervising the building of a sports pavilion, and the conversion of a local stately home into
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on 8 April 1891, elder daughter (she also having two brothers) of independently wealthy landowner John
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MIEE, an electrical engineer who would later advise on the electricity supply scheme for the whole of the west of
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Association” and wishing “to put on record its thanks to Mrs
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