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Nan Ino Cooper
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Born in 1880 on June 30th in Blandford, Dorset, Nan Ino Herbert Cooper was the daughter of Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert and Florence Amabell (Cowper) Herbert. Nan was said to be interested in mystical and occult religions (an ‘ardent theosophist’).
Work
[edit]She gave away a house in the New Forest that she had inherited to the ‘Purple Lotus Mother’ of the ‘Universal Brotherhood’ for a theosophist school. She was a director of the Cuba Raja Yoga School in the early 1900s in Cuba where she lived. Before WW1 broke out in 1914 she had trained as a nurse and then went on to take over setting up and running her family home, Wrest Park, as a hospital for wounded soldiers known as Baroness Lucas and Lady Dingwall