Who, in 1907, was the first woman to become a member of the Order of Merit?
"Royal Air Force and, in 1969, the definition of honorary recipients was expanded to include members of the Commonwealth of Nations that are not realms. From its inception, the order has been open to women, Florence Nightingale being the first woman to receive the honour, in 1907. Several individuals have refused admission into the Order of Merit, such as Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, and George Bernard Shaw. To date, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, remains the youngest person ever inducted into the Order of Merit, having been admitted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1968, when he was 47 years"
"Order of Merit The Order of Merit () is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by King Edward VII, admission into the order remains the personal gift of its Sovereign—currently Edward VII's great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II—and is restricted to a maximum of 24 living recipients from the Commonwealth realms, plus a limited number of honorary members. While all members are awarded the right to use the post-nominal letters ""OM"" and wear the badge of the order, the Order of Merit's precedence among other"
"Ladies Merit Cross The Ladies Merit Cross (""Frauenverdienstkreuz"") was founded on 22 October 1907 by King William II of Prussia as a two-class Ladies Order and to reward women and young women, who worked in the field of charity, or in a religious or social field, who rendered outstanding had personal self-sacrificing service. The award was ranked just behind the Order of Louise. To be awarded the first class, a member must have held the second class for ten years. In exceptional cases, this requirement could be waived. The insignia were returnable upon death. The badge is made of gold"
"Merit was the highest civilian award for merit a Canadian could receive. Some orders of precedence are as follows: Order of Merit The Order of Merit () is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by King Edward VII, admission into the order remains the personal gift of its Sovereign—currently Edward VII's great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II—and is restricted to a maximum of 24 living recipients from the Commonwealth realms, plus a limited number of honorary members. While all members are awarded the right to"
"be appointed to the Order of Merit by a king or queen. She was the first and, as of 2016, remains the only woman to receive the prestigious Copley Medal. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1947 and EMBO Membership in 1970., Hodgkin was Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 to 1988. In 1958, she was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1966, she was awarded the Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member for her significant contribution. She became a foreign member of the USSR Academy of"
"Order Of Merit first class for her work on Beethoven. She died at Hampstead, London in October 1962. Emily Anderson Emily Anderson, OBE (March 1891 – October 1962) was a British Foreign Office official and scholar of German. She was born in Galway, Ireland, the daughter of Alexander Anderson, president of Queens College Galway. Ms Anderson was educated privately and won the Browne Scholarship in 1909 at QCG, where she received a B.A. in 1911. She displayed a strong interest in the suffragette movement in Galway. After further study in Berlin and Marburg, she taught for two years at Queen's"
"women have made up a steady 30–31% of recipients. Colloquially, the decorations of the different classes of the Order are also known as the Federal Cross of Merit (""Bundesverdienstkreuz""). Most of the German federal states (""Länder"") have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order — the most famous example: former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt). The order was established on 7 September 1951 by"
"2013 inductees. Beverly P. Ryder, board of directors co-president, said that Millett was a ""real pillar of the women's movement"". The induction ceremony took place on October 24, 2013, at the National Women's Hall of Fame headquarters in Seneca Falls, New York. Some of her exhibitions and installations are: Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as"
"In November 1917 she was appointed honorary Captain in the W.A.A.C. (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps), (from 1918 known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps), which was preparing to embark for France, and she was one of the first to go. While treating wounded soldiers at the front, the W.A.A.C.'s shelter trench was bombed and machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, and many around her were killed. With apparent disregard for her own safety she attended to the wounds of her injured comrades and despatched them to nearby Abbeville. For her coolness under fire she was awarded a Military Medal, the first woman"
"and from 1917 to 1926 sat on the Special Grants Committee of the Ministry of Pensions. She was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Birmingham in 1922, specialising in cases involving children and working-class girls. She was a family visitor for foster parents and invited many poor women and girls to stay in her home at Caldwell Hall, Upton Warren, Worcestershire. Ethel Shakespear was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1918 for her war work and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. She died"
"she became manager of the Medford Postal telegraph office in 1907 it was an unusual circumstance since very few women were appointed managers. She earned respect and admiration of the community through the successful management of the company. In 1923 she won the prize of the Postal Telegraph company for having the most successful office of its size on the West Coast. She retired in 1939 after 32 years of services. In 1897 she was initiated to the Adarel Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and remained a member for 60 years. She was identified with the history"
"one of only eight civilians to receive it. Her name was deleted from the Army Medal of Honor Roll in 1917 (along with over 900 other male MOH recipients); however, it was restored in 1977. After the war, she was a writer and lecturer supporting the women's suffrage movement until her death in 1919. Mary Edwards Walker was born in the Town of Oswego, New York, on November 26, 1832, the daughter of Alvah (father) and Vesta (mother) Walker. She was the youngest of seven children: she had five sisters and one brother. Alvah and Vesta raised both their son"
"of Humane Letters, Marymount University In 1977, Shouse was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Shouse received myriad other awards, including the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center, the Vienna (Austria) Medal of Honor for Assistance to Austrian Youth, and the City of Paris Award (both in 1949). She was the first woman to receive the German Federal Republic's Commander's Cross of Merit (1954), and Shouse was named by Queen Elizabeth"
"consider other matters than purely financial ones. Another revision of the statutes of the Order was undertaken in 1925, to consolidate the 41 additional statutes which had been issued since the 1859 revision. Women were admitted to the Order in 1971. In the 1971 New Year Honours, Jean Nunn became the first woman admitted to the order. In 1975, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, an aunt of Elizabeth II, became the first (and to date only) woman to reach the highest rank, Dame Grand Cross. Princess Alice (née Douglas-Montagu-Scott) was a direct descendant of the Order's first Great Master, and"
"Incurables at Putney) and throughout Britain (Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary and Liverpool Royal Infirmary), as well as at Sydney Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. In 1883, Nightingale became the first recipient of the Royal Red Cross. In 1904, she was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St John (LGStJ). In 1907, she became the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit. In the following year she was given the Honorary Freedom of the City of London. Her birthday is now celebrated as International CFS Awareness Day. From 1857 onwards,"
"Dorothie Feilding Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore, MM (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who shunned her aristocratic background to become a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. She also received the 1914 Star, the Croix de guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to their wounded. Born on 6 October 1889 to Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and the Countess"
"""KMS"", and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters ""KMA"". However, Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, advised against the new order, primarily because of its selection process. Victoria's son, King Edward VII, eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 (the date for which his coronation had been originally planned) as a means to acknowledge ""exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science"". All modern aspects of the order were"
"honoured. Parker was posthumously inducted to the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2007 for service to the community. Marjorie Parker Dame Marjorie Parker, DBE (1900 – 18 February 1991), known as Margot Parker, was an Australian civic and political activist who was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Born in Ballarat as Marjorie Alice Collett Shoppee to Walter Collett Shoppee and Victoria Alice (née Tilley), she attended Ballarat State School. She married James Maxwell Parker on 12 June 1926; they had one child, a son, Alan. From 1941 to 1969 she was"
"""The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbour and If the Old Could"", listing Doris Lessing as author. Lessing declined a damehood (DBE) in 1992 as an honour linked to a non-existent Empire; she had declined an OBE in 1977. Later she accepted appointment as a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for ""conspicuous national service"". She was also made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. In 2007, Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She received the prize at the age of 88 years 52 days, making her the"
"Women) in London, and the Canning Town Mission Hospital for Women in East London. In 1907 she was appointed gynaecological surgeon to a new unit in the Liverpool Stanley Hospital – the first woman to hold an honorary post in a Liverpool hospital. Beds had been specially endowed on the condition that they should be in the care of a woman practitioner. Here she built up a large gynaecological out-patient department. Later she was also appointed honorary surgeon to the Liverpool Samaritan Hospital. In Liverpool she fought to have more women appointed to hospital posts, and became a leading member"
"Caroline Soule Caroline Augusta White Soule (September 3, 1824 – December 6, 1903), was an American novelist, poet, religious writer, editor, and ordained Universalist minister, who was in 1880 the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United Kingdom; first president and one of the founders of the Woman's Centenary Aid Association, the earliest national organization of American church women; and the first Universalist Church of America missionary when sent to Scotland in 1878. Caroline Augusta White was born on September 3, 1824 in Albany, New York, the third of six children of Nathaniel White (born 1792"
"utilized to aid the army in the use of the telegraph. In 1873, Juliette Dodu was responsible for the telegraph office of Enghien-les-Bains, where she made the acquaintance of Hippolyte de Villemessant, the patron of ""Le Figaro"". On May 26, 1877, the first known version of the ""legend of Dodu"" appeared in that journal. Now cast as a symbol of the French resistance, Juliette Dodu was the first woman to receive the Military Medal and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Marshal of France and president of the Third Republic, signed the decree of July 30,"
"Roosevelt was unable to support the bill, and it failed. Women had served in the United States military before. In 1901, a female Nurse Corps was established in the Army Medical Department and in 1907 a Navy Nurse Corps was established. However, despite their uniforms the nurses were civilian employees with few benefits. They slowly gained additional privileges, including ""relative ranks"" and insignia in 1920, a retirement pension in 1926, and a disability pension if injured in the line of duty in 1926. Rogers voted to support the pensions. The first American women enlisted into the regular armed forces were"
"Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 – May 31, 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. Elizabeth Blackwell played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social and moral reformer. She acted as a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine. Elizabeth Blackwell's contributions remain celebrated through an Elizabeth Blackwell medal that is awarded to one woman every year who has added to the cause"
"Appeals Advisory Committee. From 1935 to 1951 she was chairman of the London Council for the Welfare of Women and Girls. For her work with the Board of Agriculture she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the first list of the Order in 1917, and promoted to Commander (CBE) in 1918 and Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. Meriel Talbot Dame Meriel Lucy Talbot, (16 June 1866 – 15 December 1956) was a British public servant and women's welfare worker. She was born in Westminster, the daughter of the politician John"
"Women's Hall of Fame. Carol Mutter Carol A. Mutter (born December 17, 1945) is a former United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. She is the first woman in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces to be appointed to a three-star grade. She retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1999. Her last active duty assignment was as Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower and Reserve Affairs (DC/S, M&RA) at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mutter was born on December 17, 1945 in Greeley, Colorado. In 1967 she was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps upon"
"Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (July 6, 1864 – December 17, 1947) was a philanthropist and socialite who was the first American woman to be awarded the Croix de Guerre and Legion d'honneur by France in 1917 for turning her Chateau d'Annel into a 300-bed hospital during World War I. Julia Hunt Catlin was born on July 6, 1864, to Julius Catlin (1833–1893) and Frances Helen Hunt (b. 1839), the daughter of Seth B. Hunt, Esq. of Maple Grove, Bennington, Vermont. Her sisters were Edith Catlin and May Catlin. She lived at 16"
"to 1971, and Second Permanent Secretary from 1971 to 1973, and only the third woman to rise to the grade of permanent secretary. She was the Chairman, Civil Service Retirement Fellowship from 1974 to 1977. In 1958, she was made a CBE. In 1972, she was the first woman to be appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath. She never married. She enjoyed reading, gardening and travel. She died on 25 July 2006, following a stroke at the Old Prebendal House nursing home in Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Mildred Riddelsdell Dame Mildred Riddelsdell (1 December 1913 – 25 July 2006),"
"provide hostels and canteens for the women munitions workers and for members of the Women's Army Axilliary Corps in France. She received the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) for this in 1917. She was national vice-president of the YWCA from 1914–1920 and from 1922–1928, and was, for a time, Director of Appeals for the Association. One of her lifelong wishes was that women should be allowed to take orders and enter the Church of England. Soon after the end of the First World War she became the first woman to preach a service at a statutory service in the"
"Berlin. By 1914 she had become a Senior Lady Inspector. In 1918 she was a recipient of one of the 1918 Birthday Honours; specifically, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1925 she became Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories. In 1933 she joined the Treasury, and she retired at age 65 in 1937. She had been one of the first women to reach the higher levels of the Civil Service. She was a member of the Whitley Council Committee on the Women's Question, and as such she argued in favor of women's right"
"for help with the debt she owes and her father explains the debt is from all the people who supported her throughout her career. In 1904, the Academy had awarded her its great gold medal, and in 1914, she also became a member of the academy. For both the academy membership and her Nobel literature prize, she was the first woman to be so honored. In 1991, she became the first woman to be depicted on a Swedish banknote, when the first 20-kronor note was released. In 1907, she received the degree of doctor of letters from Uppsala University. In"
"and two of her three sisters, in Mount Royal Cemetery. Margaret Ridley Charlton Award for Outstanding Achievement At the winter 2004 meeting of the Canadian Health Libraries Association /Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada Board of Directors, it was decided to rename the Award for Outstanding Achievement in honour of Margaret Ridley Charlton Margaret Ridley Charlton Margaret Charlton (10 December 1858 – 1 May 1931) was a pioneering medical librarian who was instrumental in founding the Association of Medical Librarians - which became the Medical Library Association in 1907. She was the Associations's first Secretary. She was born"
"acting as contract surgeon; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made. It is ordered, That a testimonial thereof shall be hereby made and given to the said Dr. Mary E. Walker, and that the usual medal of honor for meritorious services be given her.</poem> Walker was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000. During World War II,"