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| Louise Burfitt-Dons | |
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| Born |
Louise Olivian Byres 22 October 1953 Magwa, Great Burgan, Kuwait |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Public speaker; blogger |
| Known for | Activism |
| Spouse(s) | Donald Burfitt-Dons (m. 1982) |
| Children | Brooke, Arabella |
| Website | www |
Louise Burfitt-Dons, FRSA (née Byres; born 22 October 1953) is a British writer, social commentator and humanitarian who is best known for her anti-bullying work as the founder of the charity Act Against Bullying.
Louise Olivian Byres 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. She attended the Anglo-American School in Kuwait, and later the Hertfordshire and Essex High School and the Ashford School for Girls in Kent. Burfitt-Dons' father died of cancer when she was 26. During his illness she obtained a liquor licence and took over the running of The White Horse in East Bergholt so she could care for him.
Burfitt-Dons has two daughters, Brooke Burfitt and Arabella (b. 1992), by her pilot husband Donald Burfitt-Dons, a New Zealander whom she met and married in London in 1982 while he was on an overseas basing with Qantas. The couple lived in Australia between 1982–93 where Louise worked as an actress and wrote plays for the Sydney stage. She co-starred in a dinner theatre show with Andrew Harwood in 1988. She lives in Chiswick London .
Louise has appeared on Sky News, Good Morning America, Channel Four News, ITV News London, ITN, BBC Breakfast and Talk Radio Europe, BBC Surrey and BBC Sussex, BBC Oxford, LBC, PM_(BBC_Radio_4) talkRADIO The World Tonight. She has written on social affairs and political issues for a range of blogs including Conservative Home and Conservative Way Forward. She is a regular news reviewer on the Ian Collins (radio presenter) show Roundtable on LBC.
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