Betsy Lobb

Betsy Lobb (15 November 1868 – 9 December 1956) was the British owner and managing director of John Lobb Bootmaker a royal warranted maker of bespoke boots and shoes in London and Paris.

William oversaw the expanding business that his father had started opening a shop in Paris in 1901 and a second unsuccessful premises in Regent Street in 1904.

Her organisation of the business raised her share capital from £7,500 to £17,000 at the end of the war when she returned to the family home in St John's Wood.

The business was not doing well and she took in lodgers to raise money to pay for education or Eric who went to Oxford University.

Her eldest son, "Mr Will", who had trained as bootmaker was drafted into the Ministry of Information.