Background
Winifred was the daughter of Frederick Charles Bourne (1859–?) and Katherine née Hill (1859-1943), a great-grand-daughter of Sir Hugh Hill, 1st Baronet Hill of Brook Hall.
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Winifred Gerin
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Sydenham High School for Girls
Newnham College, Cambridge (graduated 1923).
Career
Her parents met when her father was a manager for the chemical company Nobel Industries in Hamburg and her mother was working there as a governess. Her first husband, Eugène Jules Telesphore Gérin (1896–1945) was a Belgian cellist whom she first heard playing at a concert in Cannes. Winifred spoke fluent French and German and, during the Second World War she worked for the political intelligence department of the British Foreign Office.
Eugène died in 1945 and, later Winifred met John Lock.
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English