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Mary Downer

A prominent South Australian patron, wife of deceased MP and high commissioner Sir Alexander Downer and mother of former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer


Lady Downer was educated at Seymour College, a private Uniting Church girls school in Adelaide, where she was raised along with her four brothers. Her father Sir James Gosse was a prominent Adelaide businessman and philanthropist as was her grandfather Robert Barr Smith. At the age of 18, in the thick of World War II Lady Downer, like her brothers before her, joined the army. Enlisted in the Searchlight Battalion in Western Australia she served as a truck driver.

Lady Downer moved to London with her husband in 1964 as he took up the post of Australian High Commissioner. Here she became involved in an Australian expatriate community establishing the Chicken and Chablis Club which remains active today.

Lady Downer has been an active patron of the Mary Potter Foundation since 1994 . The Mary Potter Foundation works to raise funds to support the work of the Mary Potter Hospice operated by Calvary Health Care Adelaide and to support the development of services to the terminally ill and their families by the Mary Potter Hospice through the provision of additional buildings, facilities, equipment and/or services.

Lady Downer was the primary patron of the Barossa Valley Music Festival in South Australia until its termination in 2005.

An article on Lady Downer was featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Barossa Living. http://www.barossaliving.com.au/

(Profile information sourced from Wikipedia and other publicly available internet sources.)

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The Mary Potter Foundation

PO Box 2003,, North Adelaide, SA 5006

p: 08 8239 0119
f: 08 8267 3875

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The Mary Potter Foundation

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The Mary Potter Foundation was established in 1987, under the auspices of the Little Company of Mary and Calvary Hospital Adelaide, to raise funds to support the work of the Mary Potter Hospice. The Foundation raises funds for new equipment and sponsors community education programs.

To raise funds to support the work of the Mary Potter Hospice operated by Calvary Health Care Adelaide and to support the development of services to the terminally ill and their families by the Mary Potter Hospice through the provision of additional buildings, facilities, equipment and/or services.

To support the programmes approved by Calvary Health Care for the education of Hospice staff and volunteers and general community in respect to Hospice care and to encourage support by individuals, group, firms or other bodies for the work of the Hospice.

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