Lady Moyra Browne

Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Ponsonby Browne, DBE (b. March 2 1918) is a former nurse and the only daughter of Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough and his wife, Roberte.

On December 10 1945, she became the second wife of Sir Denis John Wolko Browne (1892 - 1967) and moved to his homeland, Australia.

After her husband's death in 1967, Lady Moyra returned to England and was vice-president of the Royal College of Nursing from 1970 to 1985, Superintendent-in-Chief of St. John Ambulance from 1970 to 1983 and Governor of Research into Ageing from 1987 to 1989.

She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977.

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