As well as being a prop of the Women's Rural Institute, a lavish provider of goods for bazaars, a devoted polisher of Church plate, Miss Easton-Dixon was also an authority on Hollywood and all its ramifications.
The daughter of an Edinburgh dustman, she left school at 14, worked as a French polisher and was a trade union activist before joining a convent in London’s Notting Hill and dying of tuberculosis at the age of 25.