Lady Mary Christina Holborow,

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(née Stopford; 19 September 1936 – 9 June 2017) was a British

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who was

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. She was a daughter of the 8th Earl of Courtown. On retirement as a magistrate (

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) she became the

and then a

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of Cornwall Rural Community Council, the South West Lakes Trust, the

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, Falmouth and th
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based in Camborne. Lady Mary served as

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for

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Cornwall from 1982 until 1987, being made

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(1987). In addition she was a

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, vice president of St Loye's Foundation, and president of Cornwall County Scout Council. She was also patron of the Citizens Advice Bureau Cornwall. Her work and chairmanship of the Cornwall chapter of

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was longstanding and especially relevant to her personal commitment to the hospice movement and health services within the county. Soon after the establishment of the

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, Penzance, Cornwall in 1996, she became a supportive member of its Council of Trusted Friends. She was made a bard of Gorsedh Kernow in 2012 at Camelford under the

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Gweresores Egloslasek/TheHelper of Ladoc. Lady Mary was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the

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. She died in Cornwall on 9 June 2017.

Family

On 8 August 1959, Lady Mary married Geoffrey Jermyn Holborow (died 11 August 2015); they had two children, Katherine Mary (born 1961) and Crispin (born 1963).

References

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''Debrett's People of Today''
1936 births 2017 deaths Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Dames of the Order of St John Daughters of Irish earls Lord-Lieutenants of Cornwall People from Falmouth, Cornwall Stopford family Bards of Gorsedh Kernow English justices of the peace {{UK-gov-bio-stub