Lett, Anita (-1940)--DB5162
Biographical Notes
Date of birth and date of death
-05.06.1940
Maiden name, place of origin
Anita Georgina Edith Studdy; Waddeton Court, Devon, England
Marital status, religious denomination, children
Married to 1) Harrold Lett, farmer in Ballindara, Bree and Kilgibbon, Wexford; 2 children, Eithne and Anita (Peggy); 2) David Longfield Beatty of Borodale, died 1904; 1 son, Henry 'Pat' Beaty, died 1935
Social background, family connections
Daughter of a clergyman and commander of the Royal Navy
Education, occupation and public functions
Education
Occupation
School of basket making, Wexford: Founder; Slaney Weavers, Enniscorthy: President, founder 1928; Farmer; Nurse of Captain David Beatty
Functions in agricultural institutions
United Irishwomen: First president 1910-1912, founder member, member of the first national committee, founder and first vice-president of Bree branch; County Wexford Farmers' Association: Vice-president, founder of the women's committee
Functions in other institutions
Political activities
Short Biography
References
Own publications
Sources
- Bolger, Pat (ed.), And See Her Beauty Shining There: The story of the Irish Countrywomen, Dublin 1986, p. 30f, 40
- Heverin, Aileen, The Irish Countrywomen’s Association: A History 1910-2000, Dublin 2000, p. 20, 35, 58, 196ff
- McNamara, Sarah, Those Intrepid United Irishwomen: Pioneers of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association, 1995, p. 40, 60ff, 92
- ARH file no. 3378