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Born in 1928, the daughter of Iron Founder and violinist, Audrey attended Sunderland High School until her education was disrupted by the war. She studied English at Durham followed by postgraduate studies at Oxford. I tried everything at Oxford except drugs, largely because I wasn't offered any, fell in and out of love and also acted. A cub theatre-critic, Ken Tynan, writing for the student paper ISIS commented that I would do to hang clothes on.A Then, like Zuleika Dobson as a young but not quite so flirtatious girl, I went on to Cambridge, not to the University but to work for Cambridge County Council as their first Childrens' Visitor under 1948 Childrens' Act. I stayed for three years and read for the Bar in my spare time.A Audrey went on to Middle Temple and joined the criminal chambers of Christmas Humphreys and established practice mainly in defence work. She married a Silk, had three children, went back to the Bar and soon into Lord Hailsham's Chambers. The apogee of Audrey's practice at the Bar was when she addressed the House of Lords in a capital murder trial, where the legal point was upheld. Audrey was appointed a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate in 1972, but missed being down in 'the arena'. Audrey was also a critic for Musical Opinion for three years and in retirement writes Children's stories, and still writes the occasional theatre criticism.

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