P. Morton Shand

Philip Morton Shand (21 January 1888 – 30 April 1960), known as P. Morton Shand, was an English journalist, architecture critic (an early proponent of modernism), wine and food writer, entrepreneur and pomologist. He is also the paternal grandfather of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Shand, the son of the writer and barrister Alexander Faulkner Shand and his wife Augusta Mary Coates, was born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Eton College, and King's College, Cambridge, as well as studying at the Sorbonne, Paris, and in Heidelberg, Germany.

Shand was married four times. His first marriage was to Edith Marguerite Harrington in April 1916, with whom he had a son, Bruce Shand, father to Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. They divorced in 1920.

Shand's second marriage was to Alys Fabre-Tonnerre, in 1920, with whom he had a daughter named Sylvia. They divorced in 1926, his wife having petitioned on the grounds of his adultery.

Shand's third marriage was to Georgette Thérèse Edmée Avril, who he married a month after the divorce decree for his second marriage was granted. They divorced in 1931, without having had any children.

Shand's fourth marriage was to Sybil Mary Sissons (previously Mrs. Slee) in 1931, with whom he had one daughter named Elspeth. Elspeth married Geoffrey Howe, later Baron Howe of Aberavon, who was then a lawyer and later a politician. Elspeth became a life peer in her own right as Baroness Howe of Idlicote. Shand's step-daughter, Mary (Sybil's daughter from her first husband naval Commander John Ambrose Slee) married architect Sir James Stirling.

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