Angela Olivia Pery, Countess of Limerick, CH GBE DStJ ( Trotter; 1897–1981) was a leader of the International British Red Cross movements. Life Angela Pery, Dowager Countess of Limerick, was born in Folkestone on 27 August 1897 & died on 25 April 1981. She was the last child of Lt Col. Sir Henry Trotter KCMG, who was an Indian Army officer, an explorer, and a diplomat, and his wife, Olivia Georgiana, daughter of Admiral Sir George Wellesley. Pery was a great-great-niece of the Duke of Wellington. Her family spent some time in Romania. She had a scar on her arm which was said to have been made by King Carol when they played together. Pery went to North Foreland Lodge at Broadstairs until she was 17 when she left to train as a nurse. She became a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She nursed the wounded of World War One in French and British hospitals after she lied about her age to get accepted. At the end of the war she continued her education at the London School of Economics where she studied social science and administration. She then travelled both in Europe and adventurously in the Middle East. In 1926 Angela Trotter married Edmund Colquhoun Pery, but she continued to work in the London branch of the British Red Cross Society. She became Countess of Limerick on her husband's succession as Earl of Limerick in 1929. She served as a Poor Law Guardian from 1928 to 1930 and on Kensington Borough Council until 1935 when the following year she was Kensington's representative on the London county council. She continued the role throughout the war. Her support for contraception led to her being called the "Countess of Contraception" and missiles were thrown at her during a meeting in Glasgow. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Red Cross joined with the St John Ambulance to re-establish the Joint War Organisation they had first established in the First World War. Pery had continued her association with the Red Cross and served as their deputy director. She visited battle fronts and over a dozen countries becoming a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1942 and an Officer of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem on 19 June 1942. On 1 January 1946, Angela, Countess of Limerick was elevated