Her twin brother was John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray[1] who at one point was said to be the sixth richest person in the world.

[1] In 1930 she married Lieutenant-Colonel George Anthony (Tony) Murray and in 1933 she became the 23 year old chair of the South London Hospital for Women and Children.

In 1950 she married Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston[3] and moved to his home, Ardchattan Priory, by Loch Etive in Argyllshire.

She joined the board of the Pearson company in 1953 and she was appointed chair of their Westminster Press which owned a number of British regional newspaper titles.

In 1960 she gave he expertise as a member of the board of the National Trust for Scotland[1] and in 1967 she led a working party for the King's Fund which looked at the optimum design of a standard hospital bedstead.