Early Life
Grace was born in Arisaig, a small village in the western Scottish Highlands. Much of her childhood was spent in Egypt, where her father worked as a civil engineer, and she attended a French Catholic convent school in Alexandria before going on to Cheltenham Ladies' College. She obtained her first degree at Bristol University, and then attended Somerville College, Oxford. In 1928, she married Frank Goldie, an actor who used the stage name Wyndham Goldie, which Grace adopted as her married name. Frank Goldie died in 1957.
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