Yvonne, Lady Cochrane

[3] Her father owned thousands of tracts of land which included much of Jezreel Valley, the Western Galilee, Haifa, and Jaffa.

[4] When her husband's father died, the couple inherited the Woodbrook estate outside of Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, and moved into the home in 1952.

She was repeatedly turned down under the Absentee's Property Law of 1950, but with added support from the then President of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, in 1980 the court ruled in her favor and financial compensation for land around Jaffa and Haifa was agreed upon.

Her children and grandchildren accepted a wreath and a posthumous National Order of the Cedar medal from a representative of the Lebanese president.

[4] Her work focused on projects that seek to reduce Lebanese emigration and to support people in their villages of origin, by creating jobs for them in the fields of agriculture, textiles and handcrafts.