Barbara Rose Eardley-Wilmot was born 30 June 1915 to parents Rev. Canon Charles Revell Eardley-Wilmot and Rose Meredyth Bowen. She married John “Jack” Franklin Carr 1 August 1942, but he died 26 October 1942 while on active duty with the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. During the war, Barbara served as a nursing sister. She remarried Geoffrey Constable on 11 October 1947 and together they had four children: Catherine Judith (b. 1950), Janet Meredyth (b. 1953), Susan Emily (b. 1956), and Peter Geoffrey (b. 1960). She died in 2002.