Born in 1903, Lily Blanche lived an extraordinary life - travelling thousands of miles with her four small children, bringing them up in India in the last days of the Raj, and witnessing the rise of Ghandi.
Returning to Britain, her home took a direct hit in the blitz and she relocated to Scotland where she fell in love with the landscape. In her later years, she lived in a picturesque whitewashed croft on the beautiful, windswept Hebridean Island of Skye