Beryl Millicent Le Poer Power was a British civil servant.
11 Facts About Beryl Power
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Beryl Power ran a number of programmes during the second world war and worked in China for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration after the war.
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Beryl Power never saw him again and he went to prison again in 1905.
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Beryl Power attended Bournemouth Church High School, Bournemouth high school and Oxford High School which was run by the Girls' Public Day School Trust.
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Beryl Power went to Cambridge in 1910 to begin a history degree at Girton College.
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Beryl Power found her training as a suffragist dealing with unpopular ideas as useful training and by 1920 she had risen to be a deputy chief inspector in the Ministry of Labour.
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Beryl Power was tasked with looking at the working conditions of women and children although there was no requirement to create a report.
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Beryl Power was very successful and it was requested that she stay there until 1949.
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Beryl Power died in Kensington in 1974 after writing her own death notice for The Times.
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Beryl Power died after taking a poisonous amount of alcohol and barbiturates.
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Beryl Power left instructions that her death should not be announced until after her private cremation.