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Over a cobbler's shop in Islington life began for Florrie Dawson. She became known throughout the world as Florence Desmond, the entertainer. Surrey remembers her as the Mistress of Dunsborough Park, Ripley. Helicopters whirled overhead depositing the great, the good and the famous. In the 60s Miss Desmond successfully masterminded Guildford St Luke's Hospital, Betatron Appeal - saying if the machine had been available cancer may not have killed my beloved father. In 1993 she died and is still remembered with great affection.

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Janet Hilderley is the author of Mr Disraeli's Rattle, the love story of Benjamin Disraeli and Mary Wyndham Lewis as they traversed the politics and social scene of Victorian Britain, and the well received Mrs Catherine Gladstone: A woman not quite of her time'.

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