Edith Sclater

Dame Edith Harriet Sclater, Lady Sclater, DBE (née Barttelot; 24 March 1856 – 29 March 1927) was a British philanthropist.

Early life and family Sclater was born at Hilliers in Petworth into an ancient Sussex family. She was the second and eldest surviving daughter of Sir Walter Barttelot, who was created a baronet in 1875, and Harriet Musgrave, daughter of Rev. Sir Christopher Musgrave, 9th Baronet.

Edith's eldest brother, Walter, was killed during the Boer War and her second brother, Edmund, was killed in 1888 while part of the Emin Pasha Expedition in Central Africa. Further tragedy befell the family when her nephew was killed at Teheran in October 1918.

First World War During the First World War, she operated the Lady Sclater's Work Room and Smokes Fund, was president of the Salisbury branch of the Prisoners of War Packing Association, president of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association at Central Hackney as well as the Salisbury Plain Pensions Committee. For these efforts she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours.

Her funeral took place on 2 April 1927 at Four Elms in Kent.