The Hon. Mabel Edeline Strickland, O.B.E. (8 January 1899 - 29 November 1988) was an Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, and was the daughter of Sir Gerald Strickland (later Lord Strickland), the former Prime Minister of Malta (1927-1932). Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, 6th Count Della Catena, GCMG, also served as Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales.
The Strickland family seat in the UK is Sizergh Castle in the Lake District. Mabel's mother was Lady Edeline Sackville, eldest daughter of Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl de la Warr, of Knole, in Kent.
Mabel Strickland O.B.E
Mabel Strickland O.B.E.
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Mabel in her younger years with HRH Princess Elizabeth, 1951.
Lord Strickland, GCMG - Mabel's father
Mabel founded Allied Newspapers Ltd - publishers of The Times of Malta and the Sunday Times of Malta in 1935. She did this with her father Lord Strickland, GCMG, and her step mother Lady Margaret Strickland, DBE, (nee Hulton). Mabel was editor of The Times of Malta and "Il Berqa" before taking over as Managing Director of the Group on the death of her father in 1940.
The paper never missed an issue throughout the Siege of Malta in World War Two, despite taking direct hits on several occasions. She formed and led the Progressive Constitutional Party during the 1950s and was one of the principal political leaders of the 1950s, participating in the integration talks in 1956-57 as well as opposing independence in 1964. She was elected to the Maltese Parliament again in 1962. She always fought passionately for a free and independent press and to maintain Malta's ties with Britain and the Commonwealth.
