Maria Farrow Collection

Collection contains the following papers relating to the awarding of an MBE to Maria Farrow in 1970.

Certificate for MBE award, 1 Jan 1970

Copy of 'The Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire' by Frederic Hood, (printed for the Order of the British Empire at the University Press, Oxford: 1967)

Promotional leaflet for 'The Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire' by Frederic Hood

Photograph of Farrow with two others and her MBE insignia

Printed copy of 'Statutes of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire', also containing two letters to Farrow re her MBE loose inside the front cover.

Envelope containing two letters, a press cutting and information card re receiving the MBE.

Maria Farrow, MBE, was an educator and trainer of psychiatric social workers and mental health officers. She studied at Vienna University and came to Britain as a refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939. She worked as a part-time lecturer at the University of Leeds.

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