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In 1953 Crawford married Captain John Acland and gave up her modelling career; but having trained as an architect and being a talented artist, she took up painting, studying at the Reading School of Art. During her years as an Army wife, she lived in Germany three times, Kenya (where she learned to fly), and Cyprus as well as at numerous Army camps around England. Her husband became Maj-Gen Sir John Acland, a Guards officer who in the late 1970s helped to supervise the handover of power in Zimbabwe. When he left the Army, they retired to his family home of Feniton Court, near Honiton in East Devon, where Lady Acland took up painting again, some of her work being exhibited at the West of England Academy and at the Westminster Galleries in London. She was a gifted gardener, and her expertise at fly-fishing was much admired by Scottish ghillies. Myrtle Acland’s husband died in 2006, and she is survived by her son and daughter.
