Book  (Sep 2020)  Page(s) 13. Vol 42,No. 3.  
 
Geoff Crowhurst.  Old Roses and a Different Slice of History Budding.
It’s also quite practical to deep-plant budded plants, to give them a chance to make new roots above the bud union. I have done this with Alister Clark’s HT Mrs Fred Danks (1951), a lanky variety I wanted to go over an arch. She sulked a bit the first year, but then took off, as if knowing what she was wanted for.
 

Magazine  (2019)  Page(s) 21. Vol 41, No. 3.  
 
Frank Hogan, Growing Roses in the Wet Tropica.
My favourite and star performer among the Clarks is Mrs Fred Danks, which sent me on my quest to find the others. Kept to a 3m pillar, flowering all year with an incredible scent that permeates the entire carpark. Beautiful semi-double flowers of clear pink washed lavender; this is a sight to behold. 

Book  (31 Mar 2010)  
 
'Mrs Fred Danks' . HT, m, 1951, Clark, A.; bud long, pointed; flowers pink tinted lilac, large, 15 petals, moderate fragrance; foliage leathery; very vigorous, upright, pillar growth
Introductions: NRS Victoria

Book  (2010)  Page(s) 271.  Includes photo(s).
 
Dorothy Twiston Williams married Fred Danks……

Article (newspaper)  (3 Jun 2006)  
 
Holly Kerr Forsyth: Mrs. Fred Danks was a keen gardener, skilled in garden design and flower arranging. Her husband was a plant breeder, specialising in delphiniums, polyanthas, freesias and iris.”

Website/Catalog  (2005)  
 
p38 Mrs. Fred Danks - very large semi double fragrant flowers of pink lightly tinted lilac, upright bush or pillar, vigorous free blooming.

p38 Mrs. Fred Danks Sport.[*] Tall shrub, pinkish mauve, fragrant, pillar

[* Private correspondence September 12, 2007 from Thomas for Roses:
“Don’t know. Sent to us as Mrs. Fred Danks, but more pinkie than Mrs. Fred Danks.”]

Book  (2004)  Page(s) 114.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mrs. Fred Danks. Hybrid tea. Bred by Clark of Australia and introduced in 1951 this rose was named after the wife of the managing director of one of Australia’s oldest companies, Danks Holdings Ltd., a large hardware-wholesaling business.[*] The rose is one of Clark’s best: long slender buds open to large cerise pink, semi-double flowers with a strong tea perfume. It is not available in other countries. Foliage is large, leathery, tinted red when young on a repeat-flowering, tall, upright shrub. It is so vigorous that it can be grown as a climber. Parentage unknown). Zones 7-10.

[* Refer 1937 reference]

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 279.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mrs. Fred Danks – introduced posthumously and named after a friend of Alister Clark – is a vigorous, repeat-flowering bush or pillar rose of R. gigantea origins.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 18.  Includes photo(s).
 
Mrs. Fred Danks – 1951. Released postumously. Unknown breeding. Large flowered bush or pillar rose. Large, semi-double, fragrant, lilac-pink flowers flushed carmine, creamy yellow centres, fully recurrent. Smooth, leathery foliage, reddish new growth. Flower 20 petals, 90 mm, 1 to 5. Bush or pillar. 2m x 1.5m.,

Magazine  (1999)  Page(s) 34. Vol 21, No. 1.  
 
Peter Lavings. Pruning……so I got to it and gave them a short back and sides. All classes of roses seemed to respond to this treating especially …. and Mrs. Fred Danks.