It wasn’t hard getting people to write down their memories of my dear godmother, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (1941-2020), for a tribute book I’ve just edited.
Memories of Lindy Dufferin came thick and fast – and she always produced a different, striking reaction in people.
‘She had no neutral gear,’ said her friend Tom Stoppard.
‘She laughed. I miss her,’ said David Hockney – whose early pictures were dealt in the 1960s at London’s Kasmin Gallery, co-owned by Lindy’s late husband, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1938-88).
And the singer Van Morrison said of Lindy, his neighbour in County Down, ‘We’re both eccentric.’
Lindy packed several lifetimes of work – and fun – into her 79 years. She
