ABSTRACT
Her maiden name was Pearce-Serocold, and she married in 1895 Charles CoombeTennant, a landed proprietor, of Cadoxton Lodge, Neath. Her husband’s sister was wife of F.W.H.Myers, one of the founders of the S.P.R. and the author of Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. Mrs Coombe-Tennant was a person of manifold interests and considerable practical ability, and took a prominent part in public affairs, particularly in South Wales. She became Chairman of the Arts and Crafts Section of the National Eisteddfod in 1918. In 1920 she was made a Justice of the Peace for Glamorganshire, being the first woman to hold that office there. She was also the first woman to be appointed by the British Government as a delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations. That appointment was made in 1922.
