- Trained as a nurse during WWI.
- Founded the Antrim branch of the NSPCC.
- Was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. In 1922 she represented Scotland in E.O. Hoppe's book of beautiful women.
- Wrote a column for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express.
- Was fascinated with the supernatural and was close friends with society spiritualist Violet Tweedale.
- Was of Scots parentage.
- Owned a dress shop in London which supplied Elizabeth, the Queen mother, with clothing in the 1920s.
- At the age of 53 she modeled for Pond's cold cream.
- Was close friends with Sir Edward Carson and helped his Unionist cause during the years of Irish Home Rule. He was the godfather of her only son, born in 1914.
- Her only daughter Diana Skeffington (1909-1930) died of typhoid aged 21. Another child, a son, died in infancy in 1910.
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