Andrew Porter points out that Lady Trudy Bliss, the widow of composer Sir Arthur Bliss, died 20 November 2008. Born 2 April 1904 in Belmont, Massachusetts, she met her future husband in 1924, while on summer vacation from Radcliffe. He was acting in an amateur production of The Beggar on Horseback near her home in Santa Barbara, California. They married and settled in his home, London, England, and had two children.
He was the composer of the music for the 1936 film of H.G. Wells’ Things to Come, and after his death in 1975 (at the age of 83), she was the keeper of his memory, co-authoring a Catalogue of Complete Works, and forming the Bliss Charitable Trust.
Lady Bliss had wide-ranging interests, from history to writing to geology, and has a wonderful obituary in The Telegraph of London.