Evelyn Penrose the world's most successful dowser?

I am looking for information on the water diviner Evelyn Penrose (1882-1971). She was described by proponents as the most successful water diviner.

It is alleged that Penrose worked as a dowser for the British, Australian and Canadian governments.

Kenneth Roberts in his book The Seventh Sense (1953) says she was the "official government-employed dowser for British Columbia." Other sources say she was employed in 1931, but these ''sources'' are all paranormal books. I cannot find any reliable sources.

The paranormal proponents who have written about her usually write of her very positively. For example Francis Hitching in his book Dowsing: The Psi Connection (1978) writes:

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During the years in which she worked in Canada, finding not only water, but also copper, silver, lead, and gold mines, and rich deposits of oil, she was calculated to have a success rate of more than 90 per cent.

But I cannot verify such claims.

Penrose wrote an autobiography Adventure Unlimited: A Diviner Travels the World (1958), I have not checked it out yet but it will obviously be heavily biased.

I guess my question is, does anyone know anything about Penrose, or of any skeptical information. I am interested in this person.

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