Charlotte Evelyn Gay

Charlotte Evelyn Gay was born at Norwood, London on 22 February 1867. Leslie was a first-class cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Hampshire, Somerset and England; as a footballer, he played for Cambridge University, the Corinthians and England. Her cousin, Kingsmill Key, captained Surrey in the 1890s. She was educated at Brighton, Sussex. ==Career==

Early in life, she was interested in the temperance movement, and became actively identified with the work of the Church Army shortly after its foundation in Westminster in 1882. In 1896, she was chosen honorary secretary of the Temperance Department of the organization, in which capacity she served until 1915. By 1925, she was a member of the Church Army's executive board, and also served on various committees. Gay was an honorary secretary of the Church Army's Women's Preventive Homes Department. During her years of official service with the Church Army, she founded three homes for inebriate women in England, which institutions she personally superintended, until they were rendered unnecessary, owing to the increase in the number of restrictions on the sale of intoxicating liquors imposed by the British Government. She maintained her business headquarters at 55 Bryanston street, Marble Arch, London, W. I. ==Personal life==

Never married, Charlotte Evelyn Gay died on 1 November 1958, at the age of 91. ==Awards and honours==

In recognition of her service to the English people, Gay was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, ==References==