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The following biography of Lady Somerset appeared in The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform (1908) Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London.
"SOMERSET, LADY HENRY: Daughter of Earl Somers of Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire; president of British Woman's Temperance Association; born in London, 1851. She was married in 1872 to Lord Henry Somerset, the second son of the Duke of Beaufort.
For some years Lady Henry was often at court, and a leader in the fashionable society of London, but this position was not congenial to her tastes.
Leaving London in the year 1878 for one of her father's beautiful country places, she remained there for many years in comparative retirement with her son. In 1884 Lord Somers died, leaving Lady Henry Somerset heir to Eastnor.Castle, Somers Town (London), and Reigate. The responsibility of administering an estate involving a tenancy of more than one hundred thousand persons deeply imprest the mind of Lady Henry Somerset, and in a crisis hour she seemed to hear a voice saying to her: "Act as tho God were and thou shalt know He is." This was the turningpoint of her destiny, for she renounced society, broke away from her former relationships at the cost of criticism and alienation, and went with her son to Eastnor Castle, 100 miles from London, where for five years she lived among her tenantry without comradeship of any kind save as Christian workers, whom she invited, came and went from time to time. She built chapels, hired missionaries, held meetings for the miners in Wales near where she had spent some years of her married life, and in every way improved the condition of those dependent upon her. Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, an American lady and a leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, came to Eastnor by invitation, and from her Lady Henry Somerset heard the history of the crusade in Ohio, the organized movement which followed it, and the wide sweep of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. By Mrs. Smith's request, Lady Somerset consented to accept the presidency of the British Woman's Temperance Association, which had been founded as the result of a visit made by Mother Stewart to Great Britain in 1876. This was in 1890. In 1891 Lady Henry, with Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith, came by invitation to the first convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Boston, Mass., presided over by Miss Frances E. Willard. She was so deeply imprest by the White Ribbon women and their work that she remained six months in America, being associated with Miss Willard in the editorship of the Union Signal, the organ of the women's White Ribbon movement.
In April, 1891, Lady Henry Somerset returned to London. In August of that year Miss Willard lost her mother and went to Eastnor Castle. By their united efforts the British Woman's Temperance Association was reconstructed on the lines of the modern temperance movement as illustrated in the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the central idea of which is to correlate the temperance movement with other reforms such as the enfranchisement of women, the labor movement, the social purity movement, all of which are inextricably intertwined with the temperance reform itself.
In the previous year, 1892, Lady Henry had assumed the editorship of a London paper called The Woman's Herald, but in 1804 the name was changed to The Woman's Signal. It is now the leading woman's paper of Great Britain in the world of philanthropy and reform.
Lady Somerset is strongly opposed to all organizations and declarations in which " profession mocks performance." She has more and more connected herself with the labor movement and with a practical "Christian socialism."" — Preceding
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The sentence about the son being born should come after the part about the happy marriage. Then should come all the information about the husband's homosexuality. I make this mistake a lot myself and that's why I picked up on it. It gives conflicting signals and makes it look as if the writer isn't really thinking about the material just copying random sentences. 71.163.114.49 ( talk) 11:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
Since she was only "Lady Henry Somerset" for the the six years of her marriage, and it says "she resumed the style of Lady Isabella Somerset" should the article be titled "Lady Isabelle Somerset"? or at least refer to her throughout the article as "Lady Isabella"?
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Why is she Lady Henry if she was already a lady by birth? -- Willthacheerleader18 ( talk) 04:37, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Lady Henry Somerset → Lady Isabella Somerset – As mentioned in the article, this person "won the court case in 1878 and resumed the style of Lady Isabella Somerset", and after 1878 she used "Lady Isabella Somerset" as her official style. Because of this name change, the article title of this person in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is "Somerset [née Somers-Cocks], Lady Isabella Caroline [Lady Henry Somerset]", and the ODNB calls her "Lady Isabella" in the article. The British Museum also registers her as " Lady Isabella Somerset". There is also an academic article which calls her " Lady Isabella Somerset". According to Wikipedia:Article_titles#Name_changes, "When this [a change of name] occurs, we give extra weight to independent, reliable, English-language sources ("reliable sources" for short) written after the name change". Since this person is called "Lady Isabella Somerset" in recent reliable sources, the name of the article should be "Lady Isabella Somerset". The move was already proposed in 2017, but it was not performed. saebou ( talk) 08:04, 14 July 2024 (UTC)