| Administrative History | Lady Alexandra Metcalfe (nee Curzon) (1904-1995) daughter of Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary, and later Viceroy of India, and early patron of Save the Children; sister of Lady Cynthia Mosley, chairperson of Save the Children's Mosely Committee. Long time supporter of Save the Children , including head of the Overseas Department, numerous overseas visits, and taking on the role of Vice-Chairman between 1968 and 1973.
Taken from a 1986 article in SCF/SC/AM/1:
'Lady Alexandra first became interested in the Fund when she was very young . . . in the early fifties she started getting involved again. As head of the Overseas Department she has been all over the world, sometimes at very short notice, to disasters like earthquakes, floods, typhoons. On the Dalai Lama's escape to India with 80,000 Tibetans she wen immediately to offer help to the Indian Government. One of the Fund's homes in Simla is the house she lived in as a bride'. |