Doris Alberta Savory

Doris Alberta Savory was the elder child of Vice Admiral Herbert and Kate Savory.

Doris married David Ambrose Lynch (19 Sept 1877-Feb 1944). For some reason her parents did no consider this a suitable match and Doris told Tony Savory that her father even tried to persuade her to call off the wedding on their way to the church. The potential reason was because David’s family were Irish Catholics.

David was commission into the Royal Fusiliers in 1899 and took part in the Boer War. He served in South Africa for several years as Remount Officer (responsible for purchasing, training, and supplying horses and mules for cavalry, artillery, and transport). He retired in 1913. Subsequently he founded the General Trading Company. He also started, and ran for some years the International Sportsmen Club.

They had a daughter Valerie Louise who married David Ivor Macdonald. Before Valerie’s marriage in 1956, she had a wide variety of jobs in New York and London, including working in the British Pavilion at the New York Fair in 1938; in the censorship department in London and Bermuda from 1940-43, followed by a spell with a Wall Street brokerage firm.  She then returned to London to work in the Colonial Office before another spell working in New York with ‘ham’ radio. From 1950 until she married, she was with Thomas Cook in Berkeley Street, London. David Macdonald worked in the film industry and won an ‘Oscar’ with his film ‘Desert Victory‘. They did not have any children.