English sculptor and translator Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge, was BOTD in 1887. Born Margaret Taylor in London to a wealthy aristocratic family, she studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. After her father’s death, she entered into a marriage of convenience with army captain Ernest Troubridge, with whom she had a daughter. In 1915, she fell in love with writer Radclyffe Hall, at the time in a relationship with Troubridge’s cousin Mabel. Hall left Mabel for Troubridge, and they began living together in London, raising dachshunds, dressing in men’s suits and dabbling in spiritualism. Fluent in French and Italian, Troubridge translated the writings of Colette into English, and sculpted dancer Vaslav Nijinsky several times. She and Hall moved briefly to Italy, returning with the outbreak of World War One and settling in Devon. The 1928 publication of Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness thrust her into the public spotlight. Troubridge largely gave up her own career to support and defend Hall, and they settled in the village of Rye in Sussex. In 1934, Troubridge became ill with enteritis. A Russian nurse, Evguenia Souline, was hired to care for her, who subsequently had an affair with Hall. Though distressed, Troubridge accepted the affair, and they continued living together in an uneasy menage-a-trois. When Hall developed rectal cancer, Troubridge (perhaps wisely) undertook nursing duties herself. After Hall’s death in 1943, Troubridge became the keeper of her legacy, promoting The Well of Loneliness and publishing a memoir The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. After World War Two, she made her home in Italy, dying in 1963 aged 76. Her request that she be buried with Hall in London’s Highgate Cemetery were discovered too late, and she was buried in Rome. Her tomb identifies her as “the friend” of Radclyffe Hall.