Gabrielle Beaumont(1942-2022)

Gabrielle and her brother Christopher Toyne represent the fourth generation of an established English "showbiz" family. Their father was the respected actor-manager and dueling expert Gabriel Toyne; their mother the leading actress-comedienne Diana Beaumont; their grandfather the 'rebel' Fleet Street editor-in-chief Comyns Beaumont and their great-uncle the theatre impresario-actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, father of the renowned author Daphne Du Maurier and son of the Victorian author/playwright/illustrator George L. Du Maurier. Gerald's sister, Sylvia, and her four children, were befriended by Sir J.M. Barrie and depicted in the film Finding Neverland (2004) - showing the creation of Peter Pan.