Louise Olivian Burfitt-Dons (née Byres, born October 22, 1953) is an English writer, humanitarian and global warming campaigner who is best known for her anti-bullying activism as the founder of the charity Act Against Bullying.
Louise Burfitt-Dons was born to Olive and Ian Byres in a small desert hospital at Magwa, in the Burgan district just south of Kuwait City. Her father worked for Kuwait Oil Company and her mother ran a kindergarten. She ha...
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Louise Olivian Burfitt-Dons (née Byres, born October 22, 1953) is an English writer, humanitarian and global warming campaigner who is best known for her anti-bullying activism as the founder of the charity Act Against Bullying.
Louise Burfitt-Dons was born to Olive and Ian Byres in a small desert hospital at Magwa, in the Burgan district just south of Kuwait City. Her father worked for Kuwait Oil Company and her mother ran a kindergarten. She had an elder brother Laurence (b. 1952). Burfitt-Dons was educated at the Anglo American School in Kuwait and later at Herts and Essex High School and Ashford School for Girls in Kent. Both her brother and mother committed suicide and her father died of cancer when she was 26. From 1975 she rented an attic flat in Belgravia owned by Elspeth Rhys-Williams, a stoic human rights campaigner and daughter of Juliet Rhys-Williams.
Burfitt-Dons has two daughters Brooke (b. 1988) and Arabella (b.1992) by her pilot husband Donald Burfitt-Dons, a New...
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