She got involved as a volunteer in the movement when her son became a cub scout and she was asked to help children complete their first aid badge.
But since her husband and son became ill, she has had to give all that up.
The only character in the second generation to rival the actress's flamboyance was her son, who became celebrated himself as Edward Gordon Craig, a theatrical visionary who achieved little but talked well enough to be awarded the Companion of Honour by the queen in 1958, when he was 86.
On Tuesday Mr Lloyd's mother, Doreen Holland, from Somerset, urged her son to seek medical attention if he became unwell, adding "we love you son".
Her son married an Irish immigrant and became the sexton of the First Parish Church of Cambridge.
Lady Mary was the duke's second wife and after he died she became embroiled in a legal dispute over his will with her step son, the fourth Duke of Sutherland.
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She tells us about Milton's recovery from a by-pass operation, about their daughter Janet's interest in boys ballooning to rival her love of horses, of how their son David became a devotee of Kipling during his father's year at Caius College, Cambridge.
When her son was born a decade ago, Suzette Trimmer, now 39, became frantic searching for a live-in nanny to take care of the child while she worked as a college administrator.
Recently it became known that she spent money remodeling her enormous executive office in order to have a baby nursery for her newborn son at Yahoo next to her office.
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But in the quarter-century after her death, the family became divided over a possible sale with William Cox III, Mr. Cox's son, helping lead the faction favoring a sale.
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