Notes
Her entry on the College Register reads as follows: '1062[1065] IRONSIDE, Joan Edith, b. 16.03.1912, dau. of Charles Williams Ironside, grocer, d. 03.03.1943. Lady Margaret School, Parsons Green, London. St Hugh’s 1931-4. Eng. Lang. & Lit., BA Hons II (1934).
Secretarial training in London (1934); welfare worker in Bristol and Salisbury (1934); six months’ voluntary work in office of the Charity Organization Society; joined staff of LCC as Asst Organizer of Children’s Care Work, eventually becoming Senior Organizer. In early years of war worked strenuously for evacuation scheme; developed deep interest in adult ed. and in WEA; gave lectures to WEA on ‘Eighteenth Century Literature’. Killed by enemy action, with her mother and aunt.
Sources: White; Chrs 7, 16.