Madeleine Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough

She is the founder of New Art Centre, London, and Roche Court Sculpture Park and Gallery, Winterslow, Wiltshire.

My father was a soldier and worked for the Secret Intelligence Service during the second world war, and my mother was one of the first women to go to Cambridge.

[3][4][5] She is a trustee of the Roche Court Educational Trust, a charity that promotes appreciation of sculpture and other arts among young people through visits to the park and by outreach.

[3] Lady Bessborough was awarded an OBE in the 2010 New Year Honours (“for services to the Visual Arts”).

She was awarded a CBE in the 2023 New Year Honours (“for services to Art Education and to Salisbury Cathedral”).