Lavinia Crosse (1821 – 1890) founded the Community of All HallowsinDitchingham in 1855.[1][2] She was the daughter of the famous Norwich surgeon John Green Crosse.[3]
In March 1854 she heard John Armstrong speak at the Norwich assembly rooms in support of a founding a penitentiary at Shipmeadow, near Beccles Suffolk, to rescue girls and women in moral danger. Shortly after, on 9 January 1855, Lavinia Crosse was asked by the council of the penitentiary to supervise this home, as the founder wished to withdraw.[4][5]
Visits to similar penitentiaries and convents on the continent convinced Lavinia Crosse that the best way forward was as a religious sisterhood. New Year's Eve 1855 saw the inauguration of the Community of All Hallows by T. T. Carter of Clewer—Mother Lavinia and two novices being received.[4]
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