Lorna Johnstone [SEP] date of birth
Lorna Johnstone
Hilda Lorna Johnstone (4 September 1902 – 18 May 1990), MBE, was an Olympic equestrian specialising in dressage who represented Great Britain in three Summer Olympic Games. She was born in York.
She participated in the 1956, 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games where, aged 70, she became the oldest ever British competitor and oldest ever woman to take part in the Olympic Games. Her best finish was 5th place in the 1968 Mixed Dressage Team event.
References.
- Mini biography at Sports
18 June 1915 in the Norfolk village of Coltishall; she always concealed her actual birth date. Johnstone was the illegitimate daughter of the musician Nora Brownsford and the artist Augustus John. Her mother gave her daughter the allusive surname of Johnstone from a tutor at Alderney and raised her with a distance relationship with her father in Norwich and London. Johnstone was resented by her half-sisters and was ridiculed by society for being an illegitimate child. She was educated at the Saint Felix School in Southwold, where she saw the paintings of