Caroline Grosvenor

Who is Caroline Grosvenor?

Caroline Susan Theodora Grosvenor CBE, née Stuart-Wortley, was a British novelist and artist.

The daughter of the politician James Stuart-Wortley, she married Norman Grosvenor, son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, in 1881. He died in 1898.

Grosvenor wrote three novels: The Bands of Orion, The Thornton Device and Laura. She was also a well-known miniature and watercolour painter. She founded the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women, which later amalgamated with the Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women, which was a subsidiary of the Colonial Office.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1920 New Year Honours for her services to women's emigration.