Maude Stanley

[2] Her youngest sisters, Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley, and Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, both campaigned for women's suffrage.

It was decided that Stanley should remain unmarried, and Lady Amberley assured her sister that their parents and siblings needed her at home.

[5] Described by Lady Amberley's son Bertrand Russell as "stern and gloomy Aunt Maude", Stanley doted on her siblings' numerous children.

She started out as visitor of Five Dials, a now-extinct London slum,[2] where her younger brother Algernon served as a curate, which she considered "old-fashioned" but enabling her to "penetrate into houses where none other could enter".

[3] She set out to reach young men and women on the streets and in the courtyards by talking to them, playing cards and gambling.

In an attempt to promote inter-club co-operation, she established Girls Club Union in 1880 (which eventually grew into London Youth).

Stanley also functioned as Poor Law Guardian, became manager of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1884 and governor of the Borough Polytechnic in 1892.