Verily Paget

Verily Bruce
Peerage #186039,

• Born 12 January 1915
• Died 16 July 2010 aged 95
• Daughter of Rev. Dr. Francis Rosslyn Courtenay Bruce and Rachel Gurney.
• Married, firstly, Captain Donald Clive Anderson, son of Frank Anderson, on 2 August 1940
• Married, secondly, Paul Edward Paget, son of Rt. Rev. Henry Luke Paget and Elma Katie Hoare, on 10 August 1971
• Educated at Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham, Warwickshire, EnglandG.
• First Aid Nursing Yeomanry between 1938 and 1941.
• With the BBC in TV and radio between 1946 and 2002.1

She wrote the books

• Our Square, published 1970.
• Scrambled Egg for Christmas, published 1970.
• Last of the Eccentrics: Life of Rosslyn Bruce.
• Spam Tomorrow, published 1975.
• Beware of Children, published 1976.
• Daughters of Divinity, published 1977.
• Flo Affair, published 1978.
• Northrepps Grandchildren, published 1979.
• The Brownies' Day Abroad, published 1984.
• Brown Cook-Book, published 1984.
• The De Veres of Castle Hedingham, published 1993

She lived in 2003 at Templewood Gatehouse, Northrepps, Cromer, Norfolk, England
Children of Verily Bruce and Captain Donald Clive Anderson

• Marian Anderson b. 7 May 1941 [O'Hare designer]
• Rachel Anderson b. 18 Mar 1943 [Children's literature writer]
• Edward Anderson b. 9 Sep 1948 [Eddie - television producer]
• Janie Anderson b. 14 Mar 1952 [Hampton - Writer and radio presenter]
• Alexandra Anderson b. 16 May 1953 [Walker - literacy tutor to young people]

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WIKI

Born as Verily Bruce on 12 January 1915 in Edgbaston, Birmingham

• BRUCE, VERILY GURNEY GRO Reference: 1915 M Quarter in KINGS NORTON Volume 06D Page 172

Attended Normanhurst School in Battle, Sussex
The Andersons ran a holiday home in Sussex catering for children of parents living abroad – characterised by one newspaper as "infant pandemonium" because of its no-rules philosophy.