Catalogue description Ethel Anne Priscilla Grenfell, Lady Desborough

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Title: Ethel Anne Priscilla Grenfell, Lady Desborough
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[Most of the papers held at this office which relate to Lady Desborough are contained in catalogues DE/Rv and DE/X789]
Held by: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
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[Ethel Anne Priscilla Fane was born on 27th June 1867, daughter of the Honorable Julian Fane and his wife Adine (neé Cowper, sister of 7th Earl Cowper). Married to William Henry Grenfell (later created Lord Desborough) of Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire, in 1887, "Ettie" was a popular society hostess, a leading spirit of the Souls (an influential group of aristocrats and others with political and literary interests and aesthetic leanings) and for many years a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary.

 

Ettie inherited Panshanger, together with other Cowper family estates in Hertfordshire, Kent and London, on the death of Countess Cowper in 1913.

 

She died on 28th May 1952, having outlived her husband and three sons and being survived by her two daughters, Monica Margaret, Lady Salmond and Alexandra Imogen, Viscountess Gage. The Cowper estates were subsequently sold off and Panshanger itself demolished]

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