 Astra Desmond

Astra Desmond (10 April 1893 – 16 August 1973) was a British contralto of the early and middle twentieth century.Astra Desmond was born Gwendoline Mary Thomson (she would later modify the spelling of her first name to Gwendolyn), in Torquay, England, the daughter of George Thomson, a Melbourne-born Australian dentist, and Viva Louisa (nee Blain), a London-born British schoolteacher and suffragist.