Ireland, Beatrice de Courcy (‘Betty’, ‘Bet’) (née Haigh)
Ireland, Beatrice de Courcy (‘Betty’, ‘Bet’) (née Haigh) (1911–99), socialist and anti-war activist, was born 25 May 1911 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, youngest of four daughters of Philip Haigh, a Yorkshire-born architect, and Victoria Alice Haigh (née Brunker), a native of…...