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Lady Caroline Faber

Lady Caroline Faber

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Lady (Ann) Caroline Faber (29 August 1923[1] 14 September 2016) was the daughter of Harold Macmillan (created Earl of Stockton in 1984) and his wife, Lady Dorothy Macmillan.[2] She was the second of their four children, and their last surviving child.

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Caroline Macmillan was born in 1923. She attended West Heath Girls' School, where she was offered a place to study medicine at Oxford. She declined the offer and served as an ambulance driver in World War II, during which time she met her future husband, insurance executive Julian Faber, who was an officer in the Welsh Guards.[3]

They were married from 1944 until his death in January 2002[4] and had five children.

The family lived at Birch Grove, the Macmillan home in East Sussex.

Caroline supported the political campaigns of her family members, including her brother Maurice and son David, and carried out charity work for the National Blind Children’s Society.

She died in Sussex on 14 September 2016 at the age of 93,[7] and her funeral was held at Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, London later that month.

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Coat of arms of Lady Caroline Faber
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Argent a chief Or overall between three open books Proper edged Or and bound Azure those in chief inscribed respectively in letters Sable "Miseres" and "Discere" and that in base also in letters Sable inscribed "Succo" and as many mullets Azure a lion rampant Sable.

Notes

  1. Court Circular, The Times (30 Aug. 1923), p. 11.
  2. "Faber, (Ann) Caroline", Debrett's People of Today (1 November 2000).
  3. "Obituary: Lady Caroline Faber". The Times.
  4. "Anne Christine Adriane Faber". Retrieved 10 April 2009
  5. Conqueror 22. Retrieved 10 April 2009



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