Angela Margaret Manners

Angela Margaret Manners, RRC - Second Class, (15 June 1889 – 1 February 1970), was a member of the British aristocracy. During the First World War she worked on the Manners Ambulance, and was matron of Avon Tyrell Convalescent home for New Zealand Officers, Sopley, Hampshire.

Nursing career and the First World War

Manners undertook three months nurse training as a paying probationer at The London Hospital from February 1914 under matron Eva Luckes. At the outbreak of war, Manners worked as a nursing Sister on the Manners Ambulance from August 1914 -November 1914. Manners had organised the Manners Ambulance which was funded by her family. She had recruited Catherine Elizabeth Anna Thorpe, matron of the West End Hospital in Welbeck Street, London, to be matron in charge of the ambulance.

Married life In 1925 she married Colonel Hon. Christian Malise Hore-Ruthven, and they had three children. Her twin sister Betty married Brigadier General Arthur Asquith, son of Henry Asquith, the former Prime Minister, in 1918.

Honours In March 1916 Manners was awarded the Royal Red Cross- Second Class in recognition for her valuable services and devotion to duty when they worked under the Belgian Red Cross in Flanders.