Marian Cripps

Overview

Marian Ellis Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, born Nottingham, England January 6, 1878 (d. 1952). Quaker war resister; twin sister of peacemaker Edith. Aided victims of Boer War; opposed conscription in World War I. Co-founded Fellowship of Reconciliation; founding member WILPF. President of World YWCA, 1924-28. Authored pamphlet against atom bomb, 1948. Head of British WILPF, 1950. Worked to end Korean War and admit China to UN.

Quotations

“At the end of this war the world will have to decide which way it desires to go, towards disarmament or destruction, there will be no middle course. The choice is really between basing our civilization on faith or fear, and the question of armaments stands at the parting of the ways.” (Friends’ Quarterly Examiner, 1917, in Oldfield, Thinking Against the Current, p. 120)