Diana Uhlman

Nancy Diana Joyce Uhlman born Hon. [Nancy] Diana Joyce Croft (31 March 1912 – 14 November 1999) was an English art gallery administrator for the Artists' International Association. She saved Croft Castle from demolition.

Life Uhlman was born in South Kensington in 1912. Her conservative parents were Nancy Beatrice née Borwick and the politician Henry Page Croft, first Baron Croft. Her maternal grandfather was Robert Hudson Borwick, first Baron Borwick. She was educated at St James's School in Malvern and she was "presented at court" after attending finishing schools in Paris and Florence.

She rebelled. She went out to meet the unemployed Jarrow Marchers when they arrived in London despite her parents' wishes. She then went on holiday where she met the people fighting against the fascists in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In Tossa de Mar, a small fishing village on the Costa Brava, she met the German emigrant, lawyer and artist, Fred Uhlman. Her parents did not want her to marry the penniless artist but that is what she did.

They set up home at 47 Downshire Hill, in London's Hampstead, and it became a meeting place for refugees and exiles who had been forced to flee their homeland. She was joint secretary of the Artists' Refugee Committee who arranged for European artists, like Oskar Kokoschka, to emigrate to the United Kingdom. Their first child, Caroline, was born while he was interned. He was released six months later and they were reunited.

The ancestral home of the Croft family was Croft Castle and it had been bought back into the Croft family in 1923 by Katherine Croft. By the 1950s it was proposed that it should be demolished, as part of the general destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain. Diana is credited with saving the castle

Uhlman died in Hereford in 1999.