Winnifred Kydd

Mary Winnifred Kydd, CBE (died 1969), was a Canadian first-wave feminist, academic dean, and disarmament activist in the years leading up to World War II.

In that position, she was one of five women to be chosen as an official delegate to the League of Nations World Disarmament Conference.

Kydd attended the Trafalgar School for Girls in Montreal, starting her studies there in 1910 and graduating in 1919.

degree Kydd won the Julius C. Strawbridge Fellowship to attend Bryn Mawr College,[1] where she spent two years.

For example, as president of the National Council of Women of Canada Kydd was a featured speaker at a disarmament rally at Central Hall, Westminster in May 1934.

In 1932, she was appointed by Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett to be a delegate to the World Disarmament Conference.