John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of three peopl
Simon in 1931
Simon circa 1916
Dame Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (17 February 1920)
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Kathleen Rochard Simon, Viscountess Simon, DBE was an Anglo-Irish anti-slavery activist. She was inspired to research slavery after living in Tennessee with her first husband, and she joined the aboli
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
…him. Greville later claimed that he had told her that he would marry the next woman he met. In 1917, in Paris, Simon married the abolition activist Kathleen Manning (1869–1955), a widow with one adult son, who had for a while been governess to his children. Her social gaucheness and inability to play the part of a…
Lady Simon on 17 February 1920
Kathleen Manning's son Brian (far right) in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, c. 1918