English actor Margaret Taylor Rutherford (1892-1972) was raised in kinship care from the age of 3.

Margaret Taylor Rutherford was the child of William Rutherford Benn and Florence Rutherford.

In 1883, William Rutherford Benn murdered his father and was subsequently held at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum until 1890. After he was released in July 1890 he changed his surname to Rutherford.

After Margaret was born in 1892, William Rutherford – a journalist - took his family to live in Madras, India.

3-year-old Margaret was sent back to England to live with her aunt, Bessie Nicolson, after her pregnant mother killed herself. (Margaret’s father also returned to England and was detained again in Broadmoor from 1904).

Margaret Rutherford because her working life as a teacher before moving into acting during her 30’s. She became well known after her performances on stage as Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest in 1939 and in 1941 as Madam Arcati in Blithe Spirit.

Rutherford made her film debut in 1935 and had a successful film career playing in a range of comedies. In the early 1960s she played Agathie Christie’s Miss Jane Marple in 4 films, by which time she was in her 70s.