She possessed a gift for historical writing, but postponed her career until her two children had gone off to boarding school. In 1928 she married George Ivon Woodham-Smith, a distinguished London solicitor with whom she had an exceptionally close and deep relationship until his death in 1968. She graduated with a second-class degree in English in 1917. She finished her schooling at a French convent and afterwards entered St Hilda's College, Oxford. She attended the Royal School for Officers' Daughters in Bath, until her expulsion for taking unannounced leave for a trip to the National Gallery. Her father Colonel James FitzGerald had served in the Indian Army during the Sepoy Mutiny her mother's family included General Sir Thomas Picton, a distinguished soldier who was killed at Waterloo. Her family, the Fitzgeralds, were a well-known Irish family, one of her ancestors being Lord Edward Fitzgerald, hero of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.Ĭecil Woodham-Smith was born in 1896 in Tenby, Wales. Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith ( née Fitzgerald 29 April 1896 – 16 March 1977) CBE was a British historian and biographer.
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