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--- "The Times" Wednesday, April 10, 1968, page 12:
Lady Headlam, widow of Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, the first and last baronet, died on Saturday. She was Georgina Beatrice, daughter of George Baden Crawley, and married in 1904. Her husband died in 1964.
--- "The Times" Friday, April 19, 1968, page 12:
BEATRIVE LADY HEADLAM
L.E.J. writes:---
Had Lady Headlam died in the nineteen-thirties and not, as she died, last week, her achievements must surely have been widely noticed by the national press. As it was, not a typewriter clicked.
For Beatrice Headlam, wife of the late Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt., P.C., D.S.O., Conservative M.P. for a Newcastle constituency, probably did more for the out-of-works in the distressed areas of Durham County than any other single person.
From her home near Barnard Castle she set up, in 1928, an employment agency through which no less than 10,000 young people were found jobs in the south of England --- a truly remarkable feat. In addition she revived dying hom industries, such as the art of quilting (using the traditional Durham patterns) by which housewives could earn money in their own homes, and arranged for the teaching of wrought-iron work and furniture-maiking to the men.
For good measure she sent cripples, at her own expense, to orthopaedic specialists in London and Shropshire. None of this tireless good-doing was allowed to damp down her high spirits and love of laughter, or to interfere with her perennial task of cheering up a brilliant and devoted, but congenitally despondent husband.
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