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Roger Ackerley Married Muriel Perry | ||||||||
| Sally Perry [CFT #13271] Born: 1909 Died: 1990 |
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| d Frenchay Hospital, Bristol Sally was one of three extramarital daughters of Muriel Perry. She, her twin sister Elizabeth and three years younger sister Diana were raised by a Miss Coutts and seldom visited by their mother, who was busy serving as a nurse in the First World War and who appeared to have no interest in their upbringing; she would later serve as a nurse in the Second World War and be awarded eight medals and an OBE. The girls' only visitor was a man they knew as "Uncle Bodger", who would come several times a year with presents. The man was Roger Ackerley, who on his death, left his son, J R Ackerley, a letter in which he confessed to being the girls' father and asked him to care for them. Diana's birth was never registered and they were all given their mother's surname. Ackerley described the lives of his half-sisters in his 1968 memoir: "They had no parental care, no family life, no friends." Sally and her twin sister ran away from the Coutts home at the age of 18. Sally's marriage to the 4th Duke was childless and on her husband's death in 1967 the title devolved upon her brother-in-law Robert. The widowed duchess started travelling around the globe, visiting South America several times. Sally's half brother was Joe Randolph "J.R.Ackerley", writer and editor who worked for the BBC from its founding in 1927 becoming literary editor of 'The Listener' which he served for more than two decades. Joe's father, Roger, of Fyffes, was a successful fruit merchant known as the "Banana King" in London. Roger's first marriage was to Charlotte Louise Burkhardt who was the model for Singer Sargent's 'Woman with a Rose'. Charlotte's mother Mary Eliza Tomes was the great aunt of Joan Elspeth Tomes, the wife of Arthur W Baldwin - Stanley Baldwin's son. Much information kindly supplied by Caroline Ferguson, 2018. |
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