Her official posts included chairman (1942-48) and president (1948-51) of the Nursery Schools Association of Great Britain founder-president of the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education and chairman of the United Nations Children's Fund (1950-51). From the 1940s onwards, Lady Allen became increasingly interested in child welfare. She served as the vice-president of the Institute of Landscape Architects between 1939-46. After taking a horticultural diploma course at University College, Reading, between 1918-20, she worked as a landscape gardener during the 1920s and 1930s, and was elected the first fellow of the new Institute of Landscape Architects in 1930. 1976 Lady Marjory Allen (nee Gill), landscape architect, campaigner for pre-school education and promoter of child welfare, was born on. UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK MODERN RECORDS CENTRE Email: Website: _
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