Born in 1898, the Hon Emily Grace Seely was the eldest daughter of General Jack Seely. 

In 1918 she served as a VAD (Voluntary Aided Detachment) in Netley Hospital and throughout the Second World War.

After the war she worked for the Red Cross and was awarded a special medal for devoted service.

During the 1920s and 30s she worked as a secretary to her father, Jack Seely, typing up, and probably editing, most of his books.

She loved sailing and it was under her helm, that Francesca, the Seelys’ Yarmouth One Design yacht, won a number of prizes. Until late in life she regularly sailed a scow in Newtown Creek.

In 1937 she married her father’s friend Lt. Col Kindersley and lived at Hamstead. Among other local causes, she undertook the fund-raising for the roof of Shalfleet Church and Church Hall, the renovation of which was designed by her brother, John Seely, 2nd Lord Mottistone.

She was elected as a County Councillor and served for almost 20 years, from 1956 to 1972, serving on both the Planning and Education Committees.

Emily Kindersley, lived at Rose Cottage, Mottistone until she died in 1992. She was a much loved aunt to her nephews, nieces as well as the local children in Mottistone and Brook, who remember the books she used to borrow for them from the County Seely Libraries originally established by her grandfather and great grandfather in the late 1800s.