13 Facts About Kathleen Innes

Kathleen Innes was a British Quaker, educator, writer and pacifist, who served as the joint chair of the international headquarters for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1937 to 1946.

Kathleen Innes's family were Quakers and her father was a physician.

Kathleen Innes's father, Reverend Thomas Royds, was a legatee of her great- grandfather, Thomas Royds of Greenhill, who made his fortune from the Lancashire cotton mills.

Kathleen Innes kept a diary that related the details of her and her colleagues' journey.

Kathleen Innes studied Serbian, becoming indispensable to her unit because of her multi-lingual ability, working as a go-between with the SWH and Serbian Relief Fund workers.

Kathleen Innes wrote of her experiences in relocating Serbs to Corsica in an article, With the Serbians in Corsica which was originally published in The Contemporary and reprinted in Maclean's Magazine in Canada.

Kathleen Innes joined the Union of Democratic Control as a part-time paid organiser and within a few months was hired in 1919 as the full-time secretary of the WILPF's London office.

Kathleen Innes resigned as the London secretary of WIPF, but the organisation made her a board member to keep from losing her skill, necessitating monthly trips to London.

Kathleen Innes continued to publish works, though on internationalist ideals of the League of Nations, including: The Story of the League of Nations, How the League of Nations Works, The League of Nations and the World's Workers, The Reign of Law and The Story of Nansen and the League.

In 1927, Kathleen Innes was elected to serve as vice chair of the London WILPF and remained in that capacity until 1934, when she became chair.

Kathleen Innes did not believe that morally reprehensible actions could justify patriotism and felt that all human life was important, following an anti-imperialist stance.

Kathleen Innes published Peacemaking in Africa, which argued for a disinterested third party to assist in settling disputes and pointed out that so-called "civilized nations" had armed the Africans, which in turn led to wars.

Kathleen Innes died on 27 March 1967 from colon cancer in Andover, Hampshire, England.