Jessie Raven Crosland
Jessie Crosland (; 17 November 187916 June 1973) was a scholar of medieval French literature, Lecturer in French at Westfield College. Life. Jessie Raven was the youngest daughter of the Plymouth Brethren preacher Frederick Edward Raven (18371903). She married Joseph Beardsall Crosland, a civil servant whom she met through the Brethren, in 1904. In 1921, she accompanied her husband to the Cairo Conference on the Middle East, later relating her recollections of Winston Churchill's behaviour at the conference: