Charlotte Evelyn Gay, OBE (22 February 1867 – 1 November 1958) was an English social reformer whose affiliations with the Church Army and her recognition as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) marked her as a significant temperance figure of the early 20th century.
[1] Early in life, she was interested in the temperance movement, and became actively identified with the work of the Church Army shortly after its foundation in Westminster in 1882.
[1] Gay was an honorary secretary of the Church Army's Women’s Preventive Homes Department.
During her years of official service with the Church Army, she founded three homes for inebriate women in England, which institutions she personally superintended, until they were rendered unnecessary, owing to the increase in the number of restrictions on the sale of intoxicating liquors imposed by the British Government.
[5] In recognition of her service to the English people, Gay was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire,[1] on 1 January 1920.