Background
Her father Major Robert Reyntiens was Aide de Camp to King Leopold II of Belgium, whilst her mother Lady Alice Josephine Bertie was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon.
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Priscilla Reyntiens
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Career
In 1921, Reyntiens married Colonel Alexander Koch de Gooreynd of the Irish Guards, who adopted the anglicized name of "Worsthorne". She had two sons with de Gooreynd, but the marriage was dissolved in 1929. As a councillor, she served on both the London County Council and Chelsea Borough Council.
Reyntiens was board member for the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, vice-president of the Royal College of Nursing, and honorary president of the World Federation of Mental Health.
She became a Justice of the Peace in 1944. She was an activist and vocal supporter of eugenics programs.
She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1963. Her younger son, Peregrine Worsthorne, was editor of the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 to 1989.
Her elder son is Simon Towneley.
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1991 (aged 91)