Betty Farrally

Betty Farrally (May 5, 1915 – April 9, 1989) was an English-born Canadian dancer, educator and ballet director. She was co-founder of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

The daughter of Arthur Hey and Ada Sugden, she was born Betty Hey in Bradford in 1915 and studied Revived Greek Dance, national dance and ballroom dance. She was educated at Harrogate Ladies' College. She studied dance at the Torch School of Dance in Leeds Farrally and Lloyd moved to Kelowna, British Columbia, in 1957, where the two founded a branch of the Canadian School of Ballet. Farrally served as Ballet Mistress there until her retirement in 1974. Her husband was killed in 1945 and Farrally remarried Ken Ripley for a brief time in 1949. She received the Canadian Conference of the Arts Diplome d'honneur posthumously in May the same year.