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Annie Elizabeth, Lady de Sausmarez, GBE (née Mann; 1856/1857 – 15 March 1947) was a British philanthropist who was president of the British Women's Work Association in China from 1914 to 1919. For this she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.
Born in Guernsey, she was the daughter of a clergyman. In 1897, she married fellow Guernseyman Havilland de Sausmarez, a judge in the Foreign Office Judicial Service. He was a judge of the British Supreme Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire until 1905, when he was knighted and appointed judge of the British Supreme Court for China (based in Shanghai). They lived in Shanghai until 1920, when they returned to Guernsey, where Sir Havilland served as Bailiff of Guernsey from 1922 to 1929. Lady de Sausmarez died at her home in Guernsey, aged 90.