Lettice Fisher (née Ilbert; 14 June 1875 – 14 February 1956) was the founder of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, now known as Gingerbread.

[3] She was educated at Francis Holland School, London and Somerville College, Oxford, where she was awarded a first in modern history in 1897.

[4] Whilst at Oxford, Fisher was also involved in voluntary work in housing, public health and child welfare.

It was the wartime scale of illegitimacy and its resulting hardships that led her, in 1918, to found the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, in order to challenge the stigma associated with single parent families, and to provide them with the support they needed.

He recalled her termly teas for undergraduates, work for unmarried mothers and membership of the university orchestra, playing the violin.