Lady Trent was probably Florence Anne Rowe, born at St Helier on the Isle of Jersey. She married Jesse Boot, founder of the Boots chemist chain, who was made Baron Trent in 1929. Both were generous philanthropists. Lady Trent was much more “social” than he, and when he died in 1931 she spent most of her time at Millbrook House on Jersey and at her house in the south of France.
Lady Trent was on Jersey during the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940–45. She became well known for her public opposition to the German regime.
Pedro Dot dedicated many roses to rich philanthropists, but he also dedicated a number to conspicuous anti-Fascists safely outside Franco’s Spain. The date of ‘Lady Trent’, 1940, suggests her rose was in the latter group.