Biographical sketches of the politician Joseph Chamberlain (1836 - 1914), Rosalind Dobbs' son and British ski champion Leonard George Dobbs (1902 - 1945), the authors George Gissing (1857 - 1903) and H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), and Kitty (1903 - 1994) and Malcolm Muggeridge (1903 - 1990) and the Potter family.
DOBBS ROSALIND HEYWORTH 1865-1949 NEE POTTER
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- GB 97 COLL MISC 0378
- Dates of Creation
- 1940-1945
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- One volume
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Administrative / Biographical History
Rosalind Heyworth Dobbs 1865 - 1949
Rosalind Dobbs was the youngest daughter of Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada and Chairman of the Great Western Railway (1817 - 1892). Her sister Beatrice Webb (1858 - 1943), was a prominent social reformer and wife of fellow reformer Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (1859 - 1947). In 1888 she married Arthur Dyson Williams (1859 - 1896), a barrister. They had one son, Noel, who died in World War I. After her husband's death she lived abroad for three years. In 1899 she married George Dobbs (1869 - 1946). Dobbs worked for Dent publishing house, but after his marriage he started his own publishing firm with a colleague. The firm went bankrupt, and the Potter sisters offered to pay his debts provided the couple agreed to live abroad. They went to live in Switzerland, and Dobbs worked for a travel business. They had four sons and a daughter, Kathleen (1903 - 1994), who married the writer Malcolm Muggeridge (1903 - 1990).
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