Ida Gandy

Ida Caroline Gandy, née Hony (1885–1977), was an English social worker and author.

[1] Ida Hony was born in 1885 in Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, where her father, the Rev.

After moving to Peppard in Oxfordshire, she married the local GP, Thomas Gandy, in 1915.

[2] Ida Gandy wrote stage plays for the local amateur drama group, and published her first non-fiction book, A Wiltshire Childhood, in 1930.

She was active in the local Women's Institute, and during World War II was the Billeting Officer for the Clun Valley.