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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
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Early life
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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
.
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Bright Young Things
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Lady Lettice Lygon was "one of the tallest and prettiest members of the younger set".
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She was "the tallest debutante of her year".
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She was a friend of
Daphne Fielding
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In 1931, Lady Lettice's portrait was painted by
Philip de Laszlo
. 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".
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Personal life
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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
).
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Before their divorce in 1958, they had four children:
They divorced in 1958.
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Later that same year, Richard married Hon. Molly Patricia Berry, daughter of
William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
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She died on 18 July 1973 aged 67.
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References
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Mosley, Charles, editor.
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.
Wilmington, Delaware
,
U.S.A.
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Burke's Peerage
(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 916.
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The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, Volume 147
. Ingram brothers. 1929. p. 56
. Retrieved
21 January
2018
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The Illustrated London News, Volume 172
. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 1928. p. 696
. Retrieved
21 January
2018
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Fielding, Daphne Vivian (1954).
Mercury Presides
. Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 135
. Retrieved
21 January
2018
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"Cotterell, Lady Lettice, nee Lady Lettice Lygon; wife of 5th Baronet"
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www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.com
. The de Laszlo Archive Trust
. Retrieved
12 January
2023
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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
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Burke's Peerage
. p. 1224.
ISBN
978-0-85011-028-9
. Retrieved
12 January
2023
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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
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"Landowner and county figure dies"
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Hereford Times
. 8 January 2018
. Retrieved
12 January
2023
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