Lady Flora McDonnell

Lady Flora McDonnell

Lady Flora Mary McDonnell (born 7 November 1963), married name Lady Flora Pennybacker, is an artist, illustrator, and prize-winning author of children's books.

Family

Lady Flora is the eldest child of the 9th Earl of Antrim and Sarah Elizabeth Anne Harmsworth, now Mrs Oliver Gates. She is the sister of Lady Alice McDonnell and Viscount Dunluce. On 30 April 2003, she married Dr Thomas Rupert Blaise Pennybacker, and with him has one son, Sorley Joseph Pennybacker, born 8 December 2004.

Education

Lady Flora was educated at St Mary's Convent, Shaftesbury, Dorset; Gresham's School, Holt; and Exeter College, Oxford.

Children's Books by Flora McDonnell

*"I Love Animals" (Walker Books, 1994) ISBN 978-0744543926
*"I Love Boats" (Walker Books, 1996) ISBN 978-0744543735
*"Flora McDonnell's ABC" (Walker Books, 1998) ISBN 978-0744560077
*"Splash!" (Candlewick Books, 1999) ISBN 076360481X
*"The Mermaid's Purse" [poems by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Flora McDonnell] (Knopf Books, 2000) ISBN 978-0375905698
*"The Cat and the Cuckoo" [by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Flora McDonnell] (Roaring Brook Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0761315483
*"Sparky" (Candlewick Books, 2004) ISBN 978-0763622084
*"Giddy up! Let's Ride!" (New Line Books, 2006) ISBN 978-1597642149

Other publications

*"Threads of Hope" [ed. Flora McDonnell] (Short Books, 2003) ISBN 978-1904095354

References

*Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, (1999), volume 1, page 90.
* [http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Flora-McDonnell Flora McDonnell at walkerbooks.co.uk]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p7026.htm#i70254 Lady Flora McDonnell at ThePeerage.com]
*List of notable Old Greshamians
* [http://www.william1.co.uk/w83.htm Descendants of William the Conqueror]


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