A hundred years ago January 9, 1926: National memorial to Queen Alexandra

Leafield (Oxford), Mid., Jan. 7:

It is proposed that the national memorial to late Queen Alexandra shall take the form of a further endowment to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses, which ministers to sick poor in their own homes. An appeal for subscriptions for this object is made today in a letter to the Press signed by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor of London, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Cardinal Vaughans, Archbishop of Westminster, Doctor Hertz, Chief Rabbi, and other distinguished personages. It is recalled that the institution was founded by Queen Victoria with the offering made by women on the occasion of her jubilee in 1887, that it received a further addition to its funds at Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, and that women’s memorial to Queen Victoria at her death in 1901 was devoted to the same purpose. Queen Alexandra succeeded Queen Victoria as the patron of the Institute, and from the first day of Kind Edward’s reign until the last days of her life, Her Majesty showed affectionate and abiding interests in its work. The letter concludes, “We feel sure that this work for the suffering poor, presided over first by Queen Victoria, then by Queen Alexandra, and now by our present gracious Queen, will appeal to our countrymen and countrywomen as a splendid and appropriate object of memorial of the nation’s love for Queen Alexandra.”