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Her father, Sir James Gosse, was a prominent Adelaide businessman and philanthropist, as was her grandfather Tom Elder Barr Smith.
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Mary Downer
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She joined the Searchlight Battalion, where she served as a truck driver in Western Australia. Lady Downer was an active patron of the Mary Potter Foundation, from 1994. The foundation works to raise funds to support the work of the Mary Potter Hospice, operated by Calvary Health Care Adelaide, and to support the development of services to the terminally ill and their families by the Hospice through the provision of additional buildings, facilities, equipment and/or services.
She was the primary patron of the Barossa Valley Music Festival in South Australia until its termination in 2005.
An article on Lady Downer was featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Barossa Living. Her body was cremated at Mortlake Crematorium in London on 22 October 2014 after a service officiate by the Dean of Westminster.
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