Zoë Ruth Davis, Lady Maynard (née Cumberbatch; 1926 – 10 December 2018) was an important figure in the Bahamas known for advancing women's rights.
[2] During World War II Maynard, still a teenager, enlisted as a private in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and was stationed in Jamaica.
[8] Arthur Foulkes recalled that she and her husband used the travel opportunities afforded by her career to purchase books for their comrades in the progressive movement.
[9] (Books by radical West Indian authors such as C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon and George Padmore were not easily accessible in the colony.
[3][2] In a tribute, opposition leader Philip Davis called her "a freedom fighter, particularly for women’s rights and in the arts.