Marian Emily Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, was a British anti-war activist.
Background
Marian Ellis was born in Nottingham, one of twin daughters of Quaker and radical parents, the colliery owner and Liberal Member of Parliament John Ellis and his philanthropist wife Maria (née Rowntree). At the time of the Jameson Raid in 1895, she became a secretary to her father, and during the ensuing Second Boer War, she took part in Ruth Fry"s projects aimed at helping female victims of the conflict.
Career
Her twin sister was named Edith. She received a home education and learned to play the cello. In the First World War, the Ellis sisters donated money to the suffering families of conscientious objectors and financed the Number Conscription Fellowship.
In 1919, Marian Ellis and the Baroness Courtney of Penwith established the Fight the Famine Committee.
Lady Parmoor acted as president of the World Young Women’s Christian Association between 1924 and 1928, and helped to establish the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lady Parmoor actively served as vice-president of the National Peace Council and argued in favour of admitting China to the United Nations and negotiating an end to the Korean War.
At the age of 70, the Dowager Baroness Parmoor undertook a study of nuclear fission in order to speak out against the use of nuclear weapon. Two days before her death at her London home, aged 74, she assisted in writing a Quaker message to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in protest against bombarding North of Korea.
She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and her ashes were taken to Frieth.
Membership
She was a founding member of the Women"s International League for Peace and Freedom and became president of the organisation"s British branch in 1950.