Janet Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh
Janet Patricia Morgan, Lady Balfour of Burleigh CBE, FRSE (born December 1945) is a Canadian-born English writer and historian.
The daughter of Dr. Frank Morgan and Sheila Saddler, she was born Janet Morgan in Montreal while her father was working on a top-secret British atomic research project, the Montreal Laboratory. She returned to England with her family before the end of World War II.[1] She earned a MA and PhD. She was named a Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 2008. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2]
In 1993, she married Robert Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh.[2]
She has been chair of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network, the Nuclear Liabilities Fund and the Nuclear Trust. She has served as a director of the Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust and Murray International Trust.[3]
Morgan wrote a biography of Agatha Christie that was authorized by the writer's family. She also wrote biographies of Edwina Mountbatten and George Bruce, her father-in-law and the previous Lord Balfour of Burleigh. She was editor for The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lady is 'a real person' at last". Montreal Gazette. 27 November 1999.
- ^ a b "Dr. Janet Morgan". The Peerage.
- ^ "Janet P. Morgan". Bloomberg.
- ^ "The Balloonist and the Housewife - A daring tale of espionage during the First World War". Clackmannanshire Council.
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