Английская Википедия:Diana Kingsmill Wright
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox writer Diana Kingsmill Wright (24 December 1908 – 24 January 1982) was a Canadian athlete, journalist and activist.[1]
Biography
Diana Kingsmill Wright was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 24 December 1908. She was the daughter of Naval Service of Canada admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill,[1] She was raised and educated in Canada and England.
In her youth, she was a competitive figure skater, who was a winner of the Devonshire Cup.[2] She was later a member of the Canadian alpine skiing team at the 1936 Winter Olympics,[3] and competed despite having suffered a broken hand.[4]
She married Victor Gordon-Lennox, the son of British politician Walter Gordon-Lennox, in 1932.[5] In this era she was a friend of actor David Niven,[1] who wrote about her in his autobiography The Moon Is a Balloon.[6]
She returned to Ottawa in 1940 after separating from Gordon-Lennox.[7] She remarried historian J. F. C. Wright in 1944, in the Parliament Hill office of J. S. Woodsworth,[8] and moved with Wright to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.[1] Active in the Saskatchewan chapter of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Wrights became co-editors of Union Farmer, the newspaper of the Saskatchewan Farmers' Union, in 1950.[1] Wright committed suicide in 1970.[8]
In the 1960s, she was active in Voice of Women. She leased the Kingsmill family summer home on Grindstone Island to the Society of Friends to serve as a Quaker retreat centre and an institution for peace studies.[9] She later served as editor of Environment Probe,[1] and served on an advisory committee to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its coverage of agriculture and farming issues.[1]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6 "Diana Kingsmill Wright" Шаблон:Webarchive. Saskatchewan Eco Network.
- ↑ "Canada in Switzerland". Winnipeg Tribune, February 6, 1925.
- ↑ "Ottawa Ski Star Chosen on Team". Ottawa Journal, September 16, 1935.
- ↑ "Applaud Efforts Diana Lennox". Ottawa Journal, February 8, 1936.
- ↑ "Diana Kingsmill Is Bride of Capt. Gordon-Lennox". Winnipeg Tribune, December 28, 1932.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ "Ottawa Women Enter Inter-City Ski Meet". Ottawa Journal, January 27, 1940.
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 "Biography - Wright, James Frederick Church" . Saskatoon Public Library Local History Collections.
- ↑ "Rebels run retreat". Ottawa Citizen, August 27, 1980.
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