Mary Perkins running PR. She has admitted donning disguises and visiting Specsavers stores, posing as a customer. Perkins was made an honorary fellow of Cardiff University in 2005. The same year she received the "Rotary International Community and Vocational Service Award" for her services to charity and in 2006 won the inaugural Spirit of everywoman Award. Perkins was the first female optician in the UK to receive the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2007. The accolade was also in recognition of her other charitable work, including the Guernsey annual "Specsavers Liberation Tea Dance for
Lesley Goldie Home" (as Maggie Howard, in 1972-73) and "The Gay Lord Quex" (in 1975, directed by John Gielgud and also co-starring Dame Judi Dench and Siân Phillips). Born Lesley Goldie, she done her schooling from Holy Trinity Convent, Bromley and went on to study in Queen Mary University of London. After her marriage she changed her name to Lesley O'Connor for some time. She has two children, sons Ciaran O'Connor and Tristan Goldie. Goldie had a run in the late 1970s as an English teacher. As of 2014, she is working as interior designer. Lesley Goldie Lesley Goldie was a British