Lady Mary Holborow
Lady Mary Christina Holborow, DCVO was a British magistrate who was Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. She was a daughter of the 8th Earl of Courtown.
On retirement as a magistrate she became the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and then a trustee of Cornwall Rural Community Council, the South West Lakes Trust, the National Maritime Museum, Falmouth and the based in Camborne. Lady Mary served as Commissioner for St John Ambulance Cornwall from 1982 until 1987, being awarded DStJ.
In addition she was a governor of University College Falmouth, vice president for Exeter Charity, St Loye's Foundation and president of Cornwall County Scout Council She was also patron of the Citizens Advice Bureau Cornwall. Her work and chairmanship of the Cornwall chapter of Macmillan Cancer Relief was longstanding and especially relevant to her personal commitment to the hospice movement and health services within the county. Soon after the establishment of the Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Cornwall in 1996, she became a supportive member of its Council of Trusted Friends. A bard of the Cornish Gorsedd/Gorsedh Kernow, she was barded in 2012 at Camelford under the bardic name Gweresores Egloslasek/TheHelper of Ladoc
Lady Mary was appointed Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2010 Birthday Honours. She died in Cornwall on 9 June 2017.Family
On 8 August 1959, Lady Mary married Geoffrey Jermyn Holborow ; they had two children, Katherine Mary and Crispin.
