[1] Her father had spent nearly twenty years in Kandy in Ceylon where he was known as "Honest John".
[2] Her parents paid for her education in Switzerland but she turned when she was fourteen to attend the Maida Vale High School.
[1] The school had outgrown its site and it moved to a new (its present) location on the banks of the River Severn in central Shrewsbury in 1895.
[1] In 1905 Gavin was able to obtain a master's degree from Trinity College, Dublin by becoming one of the Steamboat ladies.
Trinity College had decided to confer degrees on any student who had passed courses at Cambridge or Oxford.