Lady Moyra Browne

Who is Lady Moyra Browne?

Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Browne, DBE, GCStJ is a former nurse and the only daughter of Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough and his wife, Roberte.

On 10 December 1945, she became the second wife of Sir Denis John Wolko Browne, a distinguished paediatric surgeon based at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 1922–67. The Sir Denis Browne Gold Medal from the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons was named in his honour. After her husband's death in 1967, Lady Moyra 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 1987–89.