Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon

The Right Honourable
The Marchioness of Willingdon
GBE, CI, DStJ
The Right Honourable The Marchioness of Willingdon GBE, CI, DStJ
Viceregal-Consort of India
	In office; 18 April 1931 – 18 April 1936
Monarchs	George V; Edward VIII
Governor-; General	The Marquess of Willingdon
Preceded by	The Viscountess Goschen (acting); The Lady Irwin
Succeeded by	The Marchioness of Linlithgow
Personal details
Born	Marie Adelaide Brassey; 24 March 1875
Died	30 January 1960 (aged 84)
Spouse	Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
Parents	Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey; Anna Brassey, Baroness Brassey;

Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI, DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India.[1] They had two sons, Lieutenant Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas (3 May 1893 – 14 September 1914), killed, aged 21, in the First World War,[2] and Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas, 2nd Marquess of Willingdon (25 July 1899 – 19 March 1979).

A 1916 charity stamp for the Bombay Presidency War and Relief Fund organised by Lady Willingdon.

Honours

She was:

Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917[3]
Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal
Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of Saint John (D.J.St. J.)
Decorated with the Order of Mercy.[4]
Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917[5]
Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours[6]

Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island, is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia.[7]
The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, is named after her
The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. www.manalihospital.com

Lee, Brian (1995). Some Indian and related bookplates. Edgbaston: Bookplate Society and the Apsley House Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780951724798.
"Death of Lord Willingdon's Son and Heir". The First World War East Sussex. 12 November 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
"No. 29886". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1916. p. 6.
"No. 27555". The London Gazette. 22 May 1903. p. 3277.
"No. 30413". The London Gazette. 4 December 1917. p. 12680.
"No. 32941". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1924. p. 4417.
Paterson, T. W. "Chronicles: A name is a name...so long as it's spelled right".

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