Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (née de Rothschild; 29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London – 22 November 1931, Overstrand), also known as Lady Battersea, was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (later subsumed by Jewish Care) in 1885 and was prominent in the Temperance movement in the United Kingdom.
[1] Along with her sister she taught in the Jews' Free Schools around Aston Clinton, and wrote a book The History and Literature of the Israelites.
[4] In 1888, Lord and Lady Battersea acquired two cottages at Overstrand, a village near Cromer, Norfolk, in order to create a holiday home.
[1] Her political engagement was in part motivated by her close friend suffragette, Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny Morgan, and propelled her into the reform movement of women's prisons in England.
[1][2] Lady Battersea also turned her homes in London and Overstrand into shelters for unmarried mothers and women rescued from prostitution.
[8] Lady Battersea died in The Pleasaunce on 22 November 1931 on the anniversary of her marriage[1] and was buried at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery.