Mary Perkins Mary Perkins Dame Mary Lesley Perkins, (born 14 February 1944) is co-founder of Specsavers, the British retail opticians chain. Together with her husband, co-founder and chairman Doug Perkins, Dame Mary has three children, all of whom work for Specsavers, and are eventually expected to take over the privately owned company. She attended Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol. She then went to Cardiff University to train as an optometrist. At Cardiff, she met Doug Perkins, whom she would later marry. The couple established their first business in Bristol in the 1960s. This was a chain of opticians around Bristol, which they
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