Born at
Denham, Buckinghamshire, she was the youngest of three children of Commander
Harold William Swithinbank FRSE DL (1858–1928) and Amy Eno, the daughter of
James Crossley Eno. She was educated at the
Heathfield School, near
Ascot. Swithinbank met Stafford Cripps in January 1910. The couple married on 12 July 1911 at Denham parish church and had four children: •
Sir John Stafford Cripps (1912–1993) • Isobel Diana Cripps (1913–1985) • (Anne) Theresa Cripps (1919–1998), who was married to
Sir Robert Cornwallis Gerald St. Leger Ricketts, 7th Bt. •
Peggy Cripps, born Enid Margaret Cripps (1921–2006), children's author and philanthropist, who married the Ghanaian lawyer and statesman
Nana Joe Appiah; their son is the philosopher
Kwame Anthony Appiah (b. 1954). She was a governor of
The Peckham Experiment in 1949 and a Vice President of the
Electrical Association for Women. ==References==