Family
In 1961, she married Antony Paton Walsh, now deceased; they had one son and two daughters. In 2004, she married John Rowe Townsend. Her brother is Christopher John Emile Bliss, PhD, FBA. He was Nuffield Professor of International Economics at Oxford University from 1992-2007 and a Fellow of Nuffield College from 1977-2007.
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