Edwina Grosvenor

Lady Edwina Louise Snow (née Grosvenor; born 4 November 1981) is an English criminologist, philanthropist and prison reformer. She is a founder and a trustee of the charity The Clink, and founder of the charity One Small Thing. She is the sister of Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. Early life and education Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor was born at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on 4 November 1981. She is the daughter of the 6th Duke of Westminster and Natalia Ayesha Phillips. Through her mother, she is descended from the Romanov imperial family of Russia and the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, as well as from the latter's great-grandfather – African tribal chief turned Russian nobleman Abram Petrovich Hannibal. Grosvenor's godmother was Diana, Princess of Wales. She went to a co-educational school in Shropshire. At the age of 12, she was taken to a Liverpool rehabilitation centre, where she was introduced to heroin addicts and became interested in helping society's unseen people. At age 15, she volunteered at a homeless shelter run by the charity Save the Family. She spent her gap year working in a prison in Kathmandu before studying criminology at Northumbria University. She studied criminal behaviour at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. In August 2021, Grosvenor graduated from Solent University with a master’s degree in criminology and crime scene management, achieving a distinction. Career Prison reform During her time in Nepal, Grosvenor worked for The Esther Benjamins Trust, a charity which works to have innocent children removed from prison. She also worked at the Central Jail in Kathmandu. Lady Edwina commissioned research by the Corston Coalition into the needs of women offenders, spent a year as a support worker at Cheshire's HM Prison Styal, then worked in HM Prison Garth in Lancashire, helping with the restorative justice program. She sits on the Advisory Board for Female Offenders under the Secretary of State for Justice and, from 2007 to 2010, was an advisor to James Jones, then Bishop of Liverpool and Bishop to Her Majesty's Prisons. In 2009, Grosvenor became the founding investor of The Clink, a British charity that identifies the training and support needed for prisoners to find jobs following release. The Clink restaurant, a fine-dining training restaurant, opened in HM Prison High Down in 2009. She became a trustee of the charity in 2011, before stepping down as a trustee in 2018.