 By the time she left, the NSPCC had increased the funds it raised from under £500,000 in 1947 to more than £20 million a year.She was the fifth child of St John Hornby, a founding partner of W. H. Smith and a deputy vice-chairman of the NSPCC, and his wife, Cecily.St John Hornby was a public speaker, a bookman and collector of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books.