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Lady Lettice Lygon
English socialite
Lady Lettice Lygon (16 June 1906 – 18 July 1973) was an English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the Bright Young Things.
Lady Lettice Lygon | |
|---|---|
| Lady Cotterell | |
Lady Lettice Cotterell (née Lygon), by Bassano Ltd, 1922 | |
| Born | 16 June 1906 |
| Died | 18 July 1973 |
| Noble family | Lygon |
| Spouse(s) | Sir Richard Charles Cotterell, 5th Baronet |
| Issue | Rose Evelyn Cotterell Anne Lettice Cotterell Sir John Henry Cotterell, 6th Baronet |
| Father | William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp |
| Mother | Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor |
| Occupation | Socialite |
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Lady Lettice Lygon was born on 16 June 1906, the daughter of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp and Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor, a daughter of Victor Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor.[1]
Lady Lettice Lygon was "one of the tallest and prettiest members of the younger set".[2] She was "the tallest débutante of her year".[3] She was a friend of Daphne Fielding.[4]
In 1931, Lady Lettice's portrait was painted by Philip de László. In the portrait, she is seated "Seated half-length slightly to the right, head turned in three-quarter profile to the left, wearing a pale off the shoulder evening gown, with a chiffon stole round her shoulders, her left elbow resting on the arm of the sofa with her hand raised to her neck, holding a string of pearls in her right hand resting on a blue stole in her lap".[5]
On 16 June 1930 she married Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Baronet (1907–1978), the only son of Sir John Cotterell, 4th Baronet and his wife, Lady Evelyn Amy Gordon-Lennox (the eldest daughter of the former Amy Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March and Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond).[6] Before their divorce in 1958, they had four children:
- Rose Evelyn Cotterell (1932–2006), who married Charles Hambro, Baron Hambro, heir to the Hambros Bank fortune.[7]
- Anne Lettice Cotterell (b. 1933)[1]
- Sir John Henry Geers Cotterell, 6th Baronet (1935–2017), who married Alexandra Bridgewater in 1959.[8]
- Thomas Richard Geers Cotterell (b. 1939).[1]
They divorced in 1958.[1] Later that same year, Richard married Hon. Molly Patricia Berry, daughter of William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose.[1]
She died on 18 July 1973 aged 67.[1]
- Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 916.
- The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, Volume 147. Ingram brothers. 1929. p. 56. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- The Illustrated London News, Volume 172. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1928. p. 696. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- Fielding, Daphne Vivian (1954). Mercury Presides. Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 135. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- "Cotterell, Lady Lettice, née Lady Lettice Lygon; wife of 5th Baronet". www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com. The de Laszlo Archive Trust. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- Raineval, Melville Henry Massue marquis de Ruvigny et; Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Marquis of Ruvigny and (1914). The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who," of the Sovereigns, Princes, and Nobles of Europe. Burke's Peerage. p. 1224. ISBN 978-0-85011-028-9. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- Bramsen, Bo; Wain, Kathleen; Brown, Kathleen (1979). The Hambros, 1779-1979. Joseph. pp. 1972–1974. ISBN 978-0-7181-1852-5. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- "Landowner and county figure dies". Hereford Times. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2023.