[1][2][3] She met Ivo Bligh at Rupertswood, where she was the Clarke family's governess, when he captained the English cricket team that visited Australia in 1882–83.

[4][5] According to one report, she was the leader of the Melbourne ladies who presented Bligh with "a tiny silver urn, containing what they termed 'the ashes of Australian cricket.

[8] Also in 1902, under the pen-name "Hildred Codrington", she wrote a religious novel, The Silvery Dawn, "written for the purpose of illustrating the power of righteousness and truthfulness as principles of human action".

[11] Florence and Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859–1927) were married in St. Mary's Church, Sunbury, with the reception held at Rupertswood, near Melbourne, Australia on 9 February 1884.

Lady Darnley died on 30 August 1944 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire,[13] and was buried in the collegiate church of St Mary Magdalene, Cobham, Kent.