Fascists when these groups emerged. Lintorn-Orman wanted nothing to do with the BUF as she considered its leader, Oswald Mosley to be a near-communist and was particularly appalled by his former membership in the Labour Party. The feelings were reciprocated, with Nicholas Mosley (whose father, Oswald Mosley, founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932) would claim that she got the idea to save Britain from communism one day while she was weeding her kitchen garden. Nonetheless, the BF lost much of its membership to Mosley’s party after Neil Francis Hawkins left in favour of the BUF in 1932 after a formal merger was narrowly rejected. Final years Lintorn-Orman was dependent on alcohol and drugs, and rumours about her sexual orientatation began to damage her reputation. Eventually her mother stopped funding her after hearing lurid tales of drink, drugs and orgies. Lintorn-Orman was taken ill in 1933 and was sidelined from the British Fascists, as effective control passed to Mrs D. G. Harnett, who sought to breathe new life into the group by seeking to ally it with Ulster loyalism. Lintorn-Orman died at the age of 40 on 10 March 1935 at Santa Brígida, Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. By then her organisation was all but defunct. Her body was buried at the English Cemetery in Las Palmas. Bibliography "Feminine Fascism": Women in Britain's Fascist Movement by Julie V. Gottlieb (I.B. Tauris, 2000) "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!": Fascists and Fascism in Britain between the Wars by Martin Pugh (Random House, 2005) References External links National Portrait Gallery pictures 1895 births 1935 deaths British monarchists People from Kensington English fascists English women in politics Recipients of the Silver Fish Award Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service volunteers