In August 1845 rumours began to circulate around Andover that inmates of the town's workhouse were being deprived of food and had taken to eating the marrow from horse, dog and cattle bones which they were employed to crush to produce bone meal fertiliser.
It is now the hub of educational institutions and is home to Asia's biggest manufacturer of fertiliser.
His business interests were equally strong, from being instrumental in the founding of the Ravensdown fertiliser co-operative (1977–1982) to his association with Auckland's highly successful Sky City casino as a director.
The discovery of the commercial viability of this process (by a Saxmundham bone merchant, Edward Packard) led to what has been dubbed "the Suffolk Gold Rush", and local fortunes were made (Packard established what was to become the fertiliser company Fisons, now part of AstraZeneca).
In Dublin for a race meeting in 1939, she met and soon married Irish fertiliser manufacturer and art collector Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet and moved to Ireland.