Bridget D'Oyly Carte (1908–1985)

Bridget D'Oyly Carte was born in London, England, the daughter of impresario Rupert D'Oyly Carte and his wife Lady Dorothy Milner Gathorne-Hardy. After her father's death in 1948, she inherited the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and controlled the copyrights to the works of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, as well as the Savoy Hotel and her family's other business interests. She was created a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.