Pamela Bourne Eriksson

Pamela Christabel Bourne was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to the Minister of Defence, Sir Roland Murray Bourne, and his wife Lucie. She attended St Hugh's College Oxford University, achieved a Class 4 degree in English in 1930, wrote two books about her travels, and various articles in newspapers. She sailed on the Herzogin Cecilie, a Finnish windjammer, from Australia to Ireland in 1934. She met the captain, Sven Eriksson, and they were married in Finland in 1935. The Herzogin …