Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ was a British peeress.
Background
Born as Barbara Jekyll, she was a daughter of Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll (Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George) and his wife, Dame Agnes Graham Jekyll, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren, the-then Liberal Member of Parliament for Spalding and the second son of the 1st Baron Aberconway.
Career
As a result, and out of a desire to retain her connection with the town, Barbara was instrumental in the construction of Spalding War Memorial. She donated £1,000 towards the cost of the memorial and attended the unveiling ceremony on 9 June 1922. On 14 June 1922, she remarried, to Bernard Cyril Freyberg (later Baron Freyberg) at Saint Martha-on-the-Hill, near Guildford, Surrey.
They had one son: Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg (27 May 1923 – 26 May 1993).
During World World War II, she was a welfare worker in Cairo, was mentioned in despatches and awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1943. When her husband"s term as Governor-General of New Zealand ended in 1952, Lady Freyberg was awarded the GBE in the 1953 New Year Honours.
She died in 1973 at 65 Chelsea Square, London SW3.
Membership
Francis, a Royal Flying Corps officer and the Member of Parliament for Spalding in Lincolnshire, was killed in a flying accident 1917.