Hermione Darnborough

Hermione Maria Louise Darnborough (1915^[1] – 29 October 2010), later Hermione Mathieson, was an English principal ballerina^[2] who made her name at Sadler's Wells in the 1930s. She retired at a young age after marrying the conductor and composer Muir Mathieson.

^ Biographical caption for E. O. Hoppé exhibition, National Portrait Gallery (2011). The 2004 entry for her husband in the Dictionary of National Biography gave her date of birth as "c.1914/15". She was 95 when she died in October 2010.
^ Andrew Youdell, entry for James Muir Mathieson in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

[1] Biographical caption for E. O. Hoppé exhibition, National Portrait Gallery (2011). The 2004 entry for her husband in the Dictionary of National Biography gave her date of birth as "c.1914/15". She was 95 when she died in October 2010.

[2] Andrew Youdell, entry for James Muir Mathieson in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

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