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Edwina (Cynthia Annette) Mountbatten Countess of Mountbatten

Wife of Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, whom she married in 1922. She rendered distinguished service during the London blitz (1940–2) to the Red Cross and St John Ambulance Brigade, of which she became superintendent-in-chief in 1942. As Vicereine of India (1947), her work in social welfare brought her the friendship of Gandhi and Nehru. She died suddenly on an official tour of Borneo for the St John Ambulance Brigade.

For use as a human name, see Ashley (name).

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In geography:

in Australia Ashley, New South Wales in the United Kingdom Ashley, Cambridgeshire Ashley, Cheshire Ashley, Devon Ashley, Dorset Ashley, Gloucestershire Ashley, Hampshire Ashley, Herefordshire Ashley, Kent Ashley, Northamptonshire Ashley, Staffordshire Ashley, Wiltshire in the United States Ashley, Michigan Ashley, North Dakota Ashley, Pennsylvania Ashley Falls, Massachusetts

Other:

Ashley (automobile), an automobile manufactured in England from 1954 to 1962 Ashley (WarioWare), a character from WarioWare: Touched! for the Nintendo DS Ashley Furniture, a furniture company "Ask Ashley", a comedy skit appearing on the television program All That Ashley Script and Ashley Inline, typefaces created by Ashley Havinden Ashley Wilkes, a central character from the novel Gone with the Wind The Ashley Book of Knots, an encyclopedic reference manual on knots written by Clifford Ashley
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