Florence Lindley (''nee Morris'') was the first

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of Lowther College, a private girls' school set up in 1896 in

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. In 1920 she oversaw the college's move to

Bodelwyddan Castle Bodelwyddan Castle (), close to the village of Bodelwyddan, near Rhyl, Denbighshire in Wales, was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesey as a manor house. It was associated with the Williams-Wynn family for around 200 years from ...

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, where she remained as headmistress until 1927, when the school was sold to Allied Schools. Lindley then moved to

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, a few miles away, where she converted the building into a 'rheuma spa', for the treatment of people with

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