A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O PQ R S T U V W XYZ
" one life can touch so many others, remembered evermore
and leave the world a better place than it had been before"
Constance Parker Graham
Her Name is Constance
* Constance Beverley Briscoe
..... one of the FIRST black women to sit as a judge in the UK ( read her autobiography Ugly)
* Constance Coltman
..... in 1917 she was the FIRST woman to be ordained in the Congregational Church
* Constance Cox
born October 25th 1912 died 1998
..... one of the FIRST adapters for television. She turned more than 30 books into serials and dramatised Pickwick Papers on television for the first time in 1977
* Constance Horner
..... FIRST woman director of the United States Office of Personnel Management which is the equivalent of Britain's head of Civil Service. She became the second ranking woman in the Reagan administration after Elizabeth Dole, Secretary for Transportation
* Constance Maillard
..... Welsh woman who was responsible for the FIRST Maternity and Child Welfare Club in Britain c 1914 and was also FIRST lady Chairman of Penarth Urban District Council
* Constance Markievicz
born February 4th 1868 died July 15th 1927
..... FIRST woman to be elected to Parliament but she never sat in the House because she was a Sinn Fein member and was opposed to the oath of allegiance to the King. Known as 'the Red Countess' she was one of the FIRST volunteers to answer the rebel call to arms when the first shots were fired in the Battle for Irish Independence on April 24th 1916. As Vice-Commandant in the Irish Citizen Army she had 120 men at her call and their mission was to help in the occupation of a small park near Dublin Castle. It was estimated that more than 1300 people were killed or severely wounded during the 6 days of the uprising and much of the centre of Dublin lay in ruins. She was arrested and sentenced to death as one of the ring leaders. This was commuted to life imprisonment but in a 1917 amnesty she was returned to Ireland
* Constance Baker Motley
..... born in 1921 in Connecticut she was the FIRST African-American woman in the state's history to be elected to the New York Senate and in 1965 became the FIRST African-American and the FIRST woman to be elected to the powerful office of Manhattan borough president in New York City. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made her the FIRST African-American woman federal judge when he appointed her to the United States District Court for Southern New York State. In June 1982 she was named chief judge of the Federal District Court that covered Manhattan, the Bronx and six counties north of New York City
* Constance Shacklock
born April 16th 1913 died 1999
..... one of the finest Wagnerian singers in the country and the FIRST British singer to appear on the operatic stage in East Germany
* Constance Babington Smith
born October 15th 1912 died 2000
..... wartime photographic interpreter who made the FIRST identification from a photograph of a German V1 flying bomb at Peenemünde in 1943. As a result the RAF carried out raids which helped reduce the damage done to Britain by these new airborne weapons. She was mentioned in dispatches in 1942 and in 1945 was appointed MBE. In 1946 she was awarded the US Legion of Merit after assisting in photographic interpretation for the Pacific War
* Constance Spry
born December 5th 1886 died January 3rd 1960
..... artist in flower arrangement she was the FIRST person to use hot house plants in her arrangements. She started her own business in London when she was 42 years old and once stopped traffic in Bond Street with a display of purple cabbages and red roses. As her fame spread she was soon in demand for society weddings and other functions and also became a lecturer on the new art she had invented and opened a training school. She prepared floral decorations for Royal weddings and her fame eventually spread to America. In 1953 she was appointed OBE
* Constance Stone
born 1856 died 1902
..... FIRST woman to practice as a doctor in Victoria, Australia, after she had qualified from the Women's Medical College, Philadelphia
* Constance Tipper
born February 16th 1894 died 1996
..... one of the FIRST graduates at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Natural Sciences. With Harold Carpenter she produced one of the FIRST methods of converting large pieces of a metal into single crystals in 1921