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'''Rotha Beryl Lintorn Lintorn-Orman''' (7 February 1895 – 10 March 1935) was the founder of the [[British Fascists]].

==Life==
Born in Kensington, [[London]], she was the daughter of Charles Edward Orman, a Major from the Essex Regiment, and her maternal grandfather was Sir [[John Lintorn Arabin Simmons]].

She served in [[World War I]] as a member of the Women’s Reserve Ambulance and was decorated for her contribution at the [[Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917]]. She also served with the Scottish [[Women's Hospital Corps]]. In these early years she developed a strong sense of British [[nationalism]], and became a staunch [[Monarchism|monarchist]] and [[Imperialism|imperialist]]. She continued her work in the field of military medicine after the war, becoming head of the [[Red Cross]] Motor School to train drivers in the battlefield.

Following her war service, she placed an advert in ''[[The Patriot]]'' journal seeking [[Anti-communism|anti-communists]]. This led to the foundation of the [[British Fascisti]] in May 1923 as a response to the growing strength of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. Financed by her mother, Lintorn-Orman's party nonetheless struggled due to her preference for remaining within the law and her continuing ties to the fringes of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. The party was subject to a number of schisms, such as when the more radical members resigned to form the [[National Fascisti]], and ultimately lost members to the [[Imperial Fascist League]] and the [[British Union of Fascists]] when these groups emerged. For her part Lintorn-Orman would have nothing to do with the BUF, it was to this group that she lost much of her membership when [[Neil Francis Hawkins]] became a member in 1932.

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