Olivia Robertson
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Lady Olivia Robertson is conferred as an Honorary Ascendi of the Ascension Of Isis by Reverend David de Roeck at the Temple Of Isis, Clonegal Castle, Carlow, Ireland
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13 April 1917 St Mary's Hospital, London |
| Died | 14 November 2013 (aged 96) Wexford, Ireland |
| Occupation | Author, artist and priestess |
| Known for | Fellowship of Isis |
Olivia Melian Durdin-Robertson, known as Olivia Robertson (13 April 1917 – 14 November 2013) was an author, artist, co-founder and high priestess of the Fellowship of Isis.
Born at St Mary's Hospital in London, Olivia Robertson was descended from the theologian Richard Graves, a cousin of the author Robert Graves, and was a grandchild of Thomas Herbert Robertson. She was the second of four children born to Nora and Manning Durdin-Robertson, an architect and town planner and a friend of the poet W. B. Yeats. Her family lived in Reigate in Surrey before moving back to their ancestral home Huntington Castle in Ireland, which had been inherited in 1925 on the death of her grandmother. From 1938 Robertson was educated at Heathfield School, Ascot and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art.
Following the outbreak of World War II, although a pacifist she served as a V.A.D. nurse in Bedfordshire in 1940. She studied at University College Dublin in 1942, and then worked at Dublin Corporation until 1946. In 1946 she published her first book, St. Malachy's Court. Further books followed, including Field of the Stranger (1948), which was awarded the London Book Society's Choice award; The Golden Eye (1949), Miranda Speaks (1950), and It's an Old Irish Custom (1954). Her book The Dublin Phoenix (1956) sold out on its first day.
In 1960 Robertson moved back to Huntington Castle, the family home, with her brother, Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, and his wife Pamela. In 1963 she formed the Huntington Castle Centre for Meditation and Study with them. In 1976 the Fellowship of Isis (FOI) was founded.
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