Dorothea Conyers (1869–1949)

Dorothea Conyers was the pen name of Minnie Dorothea Spaight Blood-Smyth, born in Ireland. She was the daughter of Col. John Blood-Smyth, a justice of the peace, and his wife Amelia Spaight. The family hunted and kept horses. She was educated at home and at school in Doncaster. In 1892, she married Lt.-Col. Charles Conyers, with whom she had two children. He was killed in World War II, and she remarried to Capt. John Joseph White in 1917. She wrote many humorous and lively stories of the Anglo-Irish sporting set, including Kicking Foxes, The Thorn Bit and Boy, Some Horses and a Girl: A Tale of an Irish Trip, between 1900 and 1948.