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Cecil Woodham-Smith
British historian and biographer
Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (néeFitzgerald; 29 April 1896 – 16 March 1977) CBE was a British historian and biographer.
She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.
Cecil woodham-smith biography
Early life
Cecil Woodham-Smith was born in 1896 in Tenby, Wales.[1] Her family, the Fitzgeralds, were a well-known Irish family, one of her ancestors being Lord Edward Fitzgerald, hero of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Her father Colonel James FitzGerald had served in the Indian Army during the Sepoy Mutiny; her mother's family included General Sir Thomas Picton, a distinguished soldier who was killed at Waterloo.
She attended the Royal School for Officers' Daughters in Bath, until her expulsion for taking unannounced leave for a trip to the National Gallery.
She finished her schooling at a French convent and afterwards entered St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated with a second-class degree