Ladies Lifeboat Guild

[1] Officially founded in 1921, the Ladies Lifeboat Guild is an association of women dedicated to fundraising to support the work of the RNLI.

Marion had already conscripted a group of women to help with the first Lifeboat Saturday.

She then organised the ladies of Manchester and Salford into committees with the purpose of raising further funds.

The November 1892 issue of the Lifeboat Journal encouraged women to ″...not wait to be asked to organise a committee, but take steps to organise one.″[3] In May 1921 the Prince of Wales at the annual meeting announced that a Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild was to be formed in the RNLI’s annual meeting.

[4] The guild was formally inaugurated at a meeting in Claridges Hotel in June 1921.