Jessie Raven Crosland Explained

Jessie Crosland (; 17 November 187916 June 1973) was a scholar of medieval French literature, Lecturer in French at Westfield College.[1]

Life

Jessie Raven was the youngest daughter of the Plymouth Brethren preacher Frederick Edward Raven (18371903). She married Joseph Beardsall Crosland, a civil servant whom she met through the Brethren, in 1904. In 1921, she accompanied her husband to the Cairo Conference on the Middle East, later relating her recollections of Winston Churchill's behaviour at the conference: She retired in 194647. Her son was the politician Anthony Crosland (29 August 191819 February 1977). She died on 16 June 1973,[2] in Merton, London.[3]

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  1. [Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks|Lady Stocks]
  2. 'Mr George Whipple', The Times, 20 June 1973, p.20.
  3. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50018864.html Library of Congress Name Authority File