Marquesa del Ter
| Lilly Rose Cabrera Marquesa del Ter y Condesa de Morella | |
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| Born |
Lilly Rose Schenrich 1864 Paris, France |
| Died | 29 April 1936 London, England |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Other names | Marquesa del Ter, Lily Rose Cabrera |
| Occupation | pianist, social worker, women's right activist |
| Years active | 1914–1938 |
Lilly Rose Cabrera, Marquise of Ter and Countess of Morella (1864–29 April 1936), known as the Marquesa del Ter, was the wife of the 2nd Marquis of Ter and 2nd Count of Morella, Ramón Cabrera y Richards. Born in Paris, she was a pianist and feminist who founded one of the first feminist organizations in Spain. She was awarded the Gold Médaille de la Reconnaissance française for her work with hospitals during World War I.
Lilly Rose Schenrich was born in 1864 in Paris to Julia Elizabeth (née Spuring) and Henri Joseph Schenrich. She married Ramón Alejandro Leopoldo Cabrera y Richards (1854–1940) on 23 October 1884 at the French Catholic Chapel on Little George Street, Marylebone, London. Her husband was a diplomat and ten years her senior. In 1889, the couple's only son, Ramón Henry was born in London. They divided their time primarily between London and Madrid though at various times he was posted briefly in Washington, D.C., St. Petersburg (1901) and Morocco (1921-1922), where the Marquesa spent three months during the worst part of the bombardment of Melilla a witness to the heavy Spanish losses.
The Marquesa was a pianist and appeared in theaters in England, France, and Spain. She also was an accomplished linguist, fluent in English, French and Spanish and spoke German and Italian. In 1914, at the start of World War I, the Marquesa founded the humanitarian organization Society for the Assistance of Allied Hospitals to provide supplies to 500 military hospitals in France. She also collected clothing and supplies for hospitals in Belgium and Salonica, Greece. The organization provided 110 ambulances and 300 men to lend aid during the war. For her work with the Red Cross, she received the Gold Médaille de la Reconnaissance française from the French Government.
At the end of the 1920s, her husband's mother died and the couple returned to Spain with their son. There, the Marquesa joined the suffrage movement and founded one of the first feminist organizations in Spain, Unión de Mujeres de España (UME) (Women's Union of Spain) on 24 December 1918. She wrote on feminist issues and her photograph was the cover portrait for the magazine "Voice of Women", issue 21, in January 1919. Though it was short lived, the Marquesa founded a feminist journal called Renacimiento. She challenged Spanish laws which deprived women of acting without their husband's consent, those that forced women to take the citizenship of their husband upon marriage and statutes that gave husbands full guardianship over children. The Women's Union was staunchly in favor of women's education, which was ignored for all classes of society at the time. Though she tried to use her contacts with royalty, appealing directly to Queen consort Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg she met with little success and frequently lamented in the press the slow progress being made in Spain.
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