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The Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava (1941-2020) was a painter, yoghurt-maker and the entrepreneurial chatelaine of Clandeboye in Northern Ireland. She studied under Kokoschka, was helped along by Duncan Grant, and her art-dealer husband Sheridan spotted an upcoming artist called David Hockney… Here is a collection of affectionate tributes to this remarkable woman from Tom Stoppard, Roy Foster, Van Morrison, Thomas Packenham et alia. Edited and published by her godson.