Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry
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The Most Honourable The Marchioness of Londonderry DBE |
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Lady Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart by Philip de László, 1927
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Edith Helen Chaplin 3 December 1878 Blankney, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 23 April 1959 (aged 80) Mount Stewart, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (m. 1899; his death 1949) |
| Children | Lady Maureen Vane-Tempest-Stewart Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry Lady Margaret Vane-Tempest-Stewart Lady Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart Lady Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart |
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Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower |
Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry DBE (born Edith Helen Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II.
Born as Edith Helen Chaplin in Blankney, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Henry Chaplin, later the 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923), and Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1855–1881). After the death of her mother in 1881, Edith was raised largely at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, the estate of her maternal grandfather, the third Duke of Sutherland.
On 28 November 1899, she married Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, who later inherited his father's title in 1915, whereupon Edith became Marchioness of Londonderry. They had five children:
On the death of the 7th Marquess, in 1949, Lady Londonderry became Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry. One of Lady Londonderry's grandchildren, Annabel Goldsmith, is also a noted London socialite.
The Marchioness died of cancer on 23 April 1959, aged 80.
In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, she was appointed the Colonel-in-Chief of the Women's Volunteer Reserve (WVR), a volunteer force formed of women replacing the men who had left work and gone up to the Front. The WVR was established in December 1914 in response to German bombing raids on East Coast towns during the First World War (see Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, Lucy Noakes, p. 53).
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