| 词条 | Alida Brittain |
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The only daughter of businessman Sir Robert Harvey and Franco-Peruvian Alida María Godefroy, Alida was born in Iquique (then in Peru),[3] where her father made millions as a saltpetre producer. Her maternal grandfather was Émile Godefroy of Pessac, Bordeaux. In 1885, the family returned to Cornwall, where her father purchased the Trenoweth estate and several properties in nearby Devon.[4][5] She had five younger brothers, including politician Sir Samuel Emile Harvey.[6] A noted harpist and composer, she was elected a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth. In 1927, she was honorary musical director of the National Conservative Musical Union. She served as president of the Society of Women Journalists from 1929–32, and was a Member of the Celtic Congress in 1933.[2] She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1929 New Year Honours, for political and public services.[7] She married Harry Brittain in 1905. They had two children: Robert Edmund Godefroy Brittain and Alida Gwendolen Rosemary Brittain.[8] She died suddenly at home in Headley, Hampshire, in 1943.[2] LegacyAlida, Saskatchewan is named in her honour.[9]References1. ^1939 England and Wales Register {{DEFAULTSORT:Brittain, Alida}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news |title= Lady Brittain |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page=7 |date= 7 January 1943 }} 3. ^1891 England Census 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Edmundson |first1=W. |title=The Nitrate King: A Biography of "Colonel" John Thomas North |date=2011 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9780230118799 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xaxgAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 |accessdate=11 June 2018 |language=en}} 5. ^{{cite web |title=Sir Robert Harvey |url=https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/cornishlatin/Sirrobertharvey.htm |website=The Cornish in Latin America |publisher=University of Exeter |accessdate=11 June 2018}} 6. ^{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1898 |publisher=Harrison & sons |page=698 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YUtNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA698&lpg=PA698 |accessdate=11 June 2018 |language=en}} 7. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33472 |date=26 February 1929 | page=1440|supp=y}} 8. ^{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editorlink=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page=2727 |pages= |ref=Burke |isbn=}} 9. ^{{cite book |last1=Barry |first1=Bill |last2=Barry |first2=William R. |title=People places: contemporay Saskatchewan place names |date=2003 |publisher=People Places Pub. |isbn=9781894022927 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPwRAQAAIAAJ&q=Alida,+Saskatchewan+brittain&dq=Alida,+Saskatchewan+brittain&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4n53CgsvbAhXGxVkKHbrGCF8Q6AEIKTAA |language=en}} 11 : 1883 births|1943 deaths|English harpists|Bards of the Cornish Gorseth|Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire|People from Iquique|British people of Cornish descent|British people of French descent|British people of Peruvian descent|Women harpists|20th-century women musicians |
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