Sarah Wilson (war correspondent)

Lady Sarah Wilson

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1893 photograph of Lady Sarah
Born4 July 1865
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England
Died22 October 1929(1929-10-22) (aged 64)
London, England
Noble familySpencer-Churchill
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(m. 1891; died 1914)​
IssueRandolph Gordon Wilson
FatherJohn Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
MotherLady Frances Vane
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OccupationWar correspondent

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson (born Spencer-Churchill; 4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929) became one of the first female war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Second Boer War.

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