Constance Adelaide Smith

The details of her early life are not clear, but she worked as a governess in Germany in the late 19th century.

Smith was inspired by a newspaper article in 1913, on the plans of Anna Jarvis, an American woman from Philadelphia, who hoped to introduce Mother's Day in the USA.

In 1914, US President Woodrow Wilson made a proclamation establishing the second Sunday of May as the official date for the observance of a national day to celebrate mothers.

[6] With Ellen Porter, a colleague from the Girls' Friendly Society lodge, Smith established a movement to promote Mothering Sunday, collecting and publishing information about the day and its traditional observance throughout the UK.

She was buried in Coddington churchyard beside her father on the left hand side of the main path walking up to the church.