Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley
Chivalric Order Member
– 1944
Who was Florence Bligh, Countess of Darnley?
Florence Rose Bligh, Countess of Darnley, DBE was the wife of Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. They married at Rupertswood, near Melbourne, Australia on 9 February 1884.
She was born in Victoria, daughter of John Stephen Morphy, sometime police magistrate at Beechworth, and met Ivo Bligh at Rupertswood when he captained the English cricket team that visited Australia in 1882-83. According to one report, she was the leader of the Melbourne ladies who presented Bligh with "a tiny silver urn, containing what they termed 'the ashes of Australian cricket.'"
Lady Florence was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.
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