Rhoda Lintorn-Orman

Overview

Rhoda Lintorn-Orman was the founder of the British Fascisti, whose scouting and First World War service background fed an early British fascist politics of discipline, patriotism, anti-Bolshevism, and fear of socialists and foreigners.

Current Profile

The episode places Lintorn-Orman at the beginning of organized British fascism. She had participated in the Girl Scouts and served with distinction during the First World War before founding the British Fascisti in May 1923.

Her political turn is presented through alarm at Bolshevism, socialism, and foreigners. The resulting organization borrowed the language and practices of service, loyalty, uniforms, and discipline while connecting women organizers to military, aristocratic, and Conservative networks.

Her role also qualifies a male-only picture of fascist politics. Women were prominent in the British movement from its beginning, even though the episode does not provide a complete account of their membership, authority, or motives.

Key Characteristics

• Founder of the British Fascisti in May 1923.
• Former Girl Scout participant associated with discipline and organized service.
• Decorated or distinguished First World War service participant in the episode’s account.
• Anti-Bolshevik activist alarmed by socialism and foreigners.
• Example of women’s early leadership within British fascism.

Evidence

Service background and founding

• 372. The Birth of British Fascism connects Lintorn-Orman’s scouting and wartime background to her 1923 creation of the British Fascisti.

Political orientation and gender

• 372. The Birth of British Fascism presents anti-Bolshevism, fear of socialists and foreigners, and women’s prominence as central to her organizational context.

Qualifications

The source supplies only a compact profile. It does not independently establish her full biography, precise wartime record, personal motives, later life, internal authority, or the relative influence of ideology, class, gender, and service culture.

What Changed

• Created a profile connecting Lintorn-Orman’s service background, anti-Bolshevism, and women’s leadership to the first British fascist organization.

Relationships

• British Fascisti - organization she founded and led.
• British Fascism - wider movement in which she represents the pre-Mosley organizational phase.
• National Fascisti - militant splinter that emerged from the early movement.
• Oswald Mosley - later leader whose rise displaced the first wave from the center of the story.