Rosamund Dashwood
Deceased Person
1924 – 2007
Who was Rosamund Dashwood?
Rosamund Dashwood was the daughter of celebrated English writer E. M. Delafield, and was one of the top female masters runners in Canadian history.
Dashwood was born in 1924 to Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, an engineer who built the massive docks in Hong Kong Harbour, and E.M. Delafield, the bestselling author who wrote over forty novels and screenplays, including Diary of a Provincial Lady.
During World War II, she joined the WAAF and worked with the newly invented and still top secret RADAR. After the war, she attended Somerville College and met Leslie Truelove, whom she married. The couple had four sons: Paul, Simon, Patrick, and Michael.
She died on April 3, 2007, at the age of 83, in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada.
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