Gladys Chatterjee, Lady Chatterjee

OBE
in 1925 by Bassano Ltd[1]
Born
Gladys Mary Broughton

30 October 1883
Ujjain, Gwalior State, British Raj
(now in Madhya Pradesh)
Died7 May 1969
Bramley, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
Known forwar work and barrister
SpouseSir Atul Chandra Chatterjee

Gladys Mary Chatterjee, Lady Chatterjee OBE (née Broughton; 30 October 1883 – 7 May 1969) was a British teacher, schools inspector, and barrister, and the wife of Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee.

Life

She was born in 1883.[2] Her parents were Emily Angelina (born Filose) and Captain William Barnard Broughton.[3] Her maternal grandfather, Sir Michael Filose, had designed Jai Vilas Mahal (known as the Gwalior palace).[4] Her father died while she was a child and her mother remarried Lt Colonel Ernest Frederick Cambier.[3]

She went to Bedford High School and she attended University College London where she enjoyed several scholarships as she gained a degree in philosophy. She gained a qualification to teach at Bedford College, London,[5] but went to work at the Board of Trade as an investigator in 1912.[3] In 1913 she went to India to work as an inspector of schools and returned during the war in 1916 to become a welfare officer in the Ministry of Munitions. For this work she earned one of the first OBE's[3] as an "organiser of women’s welfare in national shell and national projectile factories".[6]

She then took a doctorate at the London School of Economics in Women and Children in Indian Industry.[5]

She married in 1924 and as a result she became Lady Chatterjee when her husband was knighted as he became the high commissioner for India in 1925. She was able to practise as a barrister after she was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1933.[3]

Personal life

On 30 April 1924 she married Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee who was a member of the viceroy’s executive council,[3] while she was working for the Indian Educational Service. She was his second wife and he had a surviving daughter from his first marriage to Vina Mookerjee. After Indian independence, they emigrated to the UK, settling in Kensington in London, where her husband died in 1955. Subsequently Lady Chatterjee presented his books to the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Lady Gladys Mary Chatterjee (née Broughton) - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
  2. ↑ Bourne, Judith (2018). "Chatterjee [née Broughton], Gladys Mary, Lady Chatterjee (1883–1969), industrial welfare promoter and barrister". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112238. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gladys Chatterjee | Inner Temple". 5 December 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  4. ↑ Wright, Colin. "Gwalior new Palace (looking West)". www.bl.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  5. 1 2 September 2020, Dr Judith Bourne7. "A woman ahead of her time". Law Gazette.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ London Gazette, 24 Aug 1917.
  7. ↑ University of Cambridge: CHATTERJEE PAPERS Archived 13 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine University of Cambridge
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