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Wilhelmine Margaret Eve, Lady Harrod OBE ( née Cresswell, 1 December 1911 – 9 May 2005), known as Billa Harrod, was a British writer and architectural conservationist, best known for saving the mediaeval churches of Norwich, and the wife of the economist Sir Roy Harrod .
- Saving the mediaeval churches of Norwich
- 9 May 2005, Holt, Norfolk, England
- Writer and architectural conservationist
Wilhelmine Margaret Eve, Lady Harrod, known as Billa Harris, was a British writer and architectural conservationist, best known for saving the mediaeval churches of Norwich, and the wife of the economist Sir Roy Harrod.
Thu 9 Jun 2005 19.04 EDT. Wilhelmine Harrod, always known as Billa, was born and died - aged 93, peacefully, after her usual active day - in Norfolk, the place closest to her heart. Her first step ...
Dec 17, 2012 · Wilhelmina, known as Billa, was the daughter of Captain Francis Joseph Cresswell of the Norfolk Regiment and Barbara (née Folkes, later Lady Strickland of Old Hall, Snettisham). She married Roy Harrod in 1938 and thereafter lived mainly at Oxford until Sir Roy retired in 1963, when the couple bought The Old Rectory, Holt.
Front: porters. Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing The Life of John Maynard Keynes (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently.
Harrod spent a year as the city editor of the Yorkshire Post, and in 1994 became programme director of St George's House, a private institution for discussion founded by the Duke of Edinburgh. He retired from St George's House in 1998. [2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992, and served on the council of the Save the ...
Lady Harrod. Redoubtable Norfolkwoman who worked energetically to save her county’s churches from dereliction. December 1, 1911 - May 9, 2005. Thursday May 12 2005, 1.00am, The Times. December 1 ...
