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Obituary: Marcia Beaverbrook

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The Independent - London, October 31st, 1994

Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, racehorse owner: born Sutton, Surrey 27 July 1909; married 1942 Sir James Dunn Bt (died 1956), 1963 Max, first Baron Beaverbrook (died 1964); died Leatherhead 28 October 1994.

In August 1961 a black London taxi approached down the drive of a villa in the South of France, and two people stepped down from it. "This is Lady Dunn," said the gentleman introducing me. She was mysterious, beautiful in an exotic sort of way, and very rich.

She had started life as Marcia Christoforides, born in Sutton, Surrey. In 1930, aged 19, she got her first and only job, as secre...

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