Enid Moberly-Bell

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Enid Hester Chataway Moberly Bell (1881–1967) was an English writer of biographies and history who was founding headmistress of Lady Margaret School and vice-chairman of the first Lyceum Club.

Life

Bell was born in 1881 in Alexandria, Egypt to Charles Moberly Bell, managing director of The Times, and Ethel Chataway. She was educated at Francis Holland School and gained an MA from Newnham College, Cambridge.[1]

She became vice-chairman of the first Lyceum Club in 1904.[2][3]

She worked at Auckland House School from 1905–8 and as a grammar school mistress in London in 1911–17.[4]

In 1917, Whitelands College School was in danger of closing. Bell held a meeting with Bishop John Maud to argue that the school should survive. The school was moved to Parsons Green and became Lady Margaret School, and Bell served as its first headmistress for thirty years from 1917–47.[5][6][7][8]  

Bell wrote several books of history and biography, including the first biography of Octavia Hill and of her fellow Lyceum Club member Flora Shaw.

Works

  • Octavia Hill: A Biography (1942)[9]
  • Flora Shaw (Lady Lugard DBE) (1947)[10]
  • Storming the Citadel: The Rise of the Woman Doctor (1953)[11]
  • A History of the Church Schools Company, 1883–1958 (1958)
  • The Story of Hospital Almoners: The Birth of a Profession (1961)
  • Josephine Bell, Flame of Fire (1963)[12]

References

  1. Who's who. A. & C. Black. 1967. p. 217.
  2. Doughan, David; Gordon, Professor Peter; Gordon, Peter (2014-06-03). Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-136-89770-2.
  3. Joseph, Claudia (2011-01-11). Kate: The Making of a Princess. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907195-35-8.
  4. Contemporary Authors: First revision. Gale Research Company. 1969. p. 786.
  5. "School History – Lady Margaret School". ladymargaret.lbhf.sch.uk. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  6. "House System – Lady Margaret School". ladymargaret.lbhf.sch.uk. Retrieved 2026-06-30.
  7. Housing Review. Housing Centre. 1968. p. 48.
  8. Chambers's Encyclopedia. Pergamon Press. 1967. pp. VIII.
  9. Bell, Enid Moberly (1943). Octavia Hill: A Biography. Constable & Company Limited.
  10. Bell, Enid Moberly (1947). Flora Shaw: Lady Lugard, D.B.E. Constable.
  11. Bell, Enid Moberly (1953). Storming the Citadel: The Rise of the Woman Doctor. Constable. ISBN 978-82-91016-39-9. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  12. Bell, Enid Moberly (1963). Josephine Butler, Flame of Fire. Constable.