SUTHERLAND, The Most Noble Evelyn, Duchess of (Evelyn Mary nee MOUBRAY) 1929-2024

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 3 Feb 2024: SUTHERLAND, Evelyn, Duchess of died on Saturday 27th January 2024, beloved wife of John 6th Duke of [Sutherland]. Family funeral. Thanksgiving Service on 7th March at 2.30 p.m. at St Andrew's Church, Kelso…

She was d of Maj Robert MOUBRAY 1895-1961 sometime head of that Scots gentry family of Broomlands and Claire Wilhelmina Maud 1907-2004 d of Lt-Col Ernest Fitzroy MORRISON-BELL OBE 1871-1960 (s of Sir Charles William MORRISON-BELL 1^st Bt 1833-1914) and Maud Evelyn 1880-1960 d of Lt-Col Francis HENRY 1842-1931 by his 1866 m to Claire Evelyn 1846-1937 d of Edward MACKENZIE 1811-80 and Mary DALZIEL 1820-61. She m 1979 as his second w (his 1^st w was a d of 8^th Duke of Northumberland) the 6^th Duke of SUTHERLAND, 5^th Earl of ELLESMERE etc 1915-2000 s of the 4^th Earl of ELLESMERE 1871-1944 (2xgt gs of 1^st Duke of SUTHERLAND 1758-1833) and Lady Violet LAMBTON 1880-1976 d of 4^th Earl of DURHAM 1855-1929, etc.

[Ivan Prekajski]

With her death oldest living duchess is Duchess of Kent (b. 1933), for non royal dukedoms oldest living duchess is Dowager Duchess of Atholl, Margaret Yvonne (b. 1935). There is maybe one former duchess still living Audrey, Duchess of Leeds who is if living in her 100th year. I have her born in 1924. If she has died then oldest former living duchess is Caroline, Duchess of Fife (b. 1934).

[bx...@yahoo.com]

This is the second passing of a dowager duchess already this year.

The Dowager Duchess of Rutland died on January 21, 2024.

Brooke

[RichardMH]

Audrey, Lady Lawrence (her 3rd husband being Sir David Roland Walter Lawrence, 3rd Brt d.2002) died 30th September 1998 and is buried at Braywick Cemetery, Royal Borough of Maidenhead and Windsor.

[Ivan Prekajski]

Thank you. I couldn't find anything about her death.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Following her remarriage Caroline Duchess of Fife is no longer a Duchess

[dpth...@gmail.com]

That may be the modern, current practice, but the older practice was for peerage widows to be called by their widowed name even after re-marrying.

Examples:

Caroline Campbell, whose first husband, the 4th Earl of Elgin and Ailesbury, died in February 1747, was known only as "Lady Ailesbury" for the rest of her life (she died 1803), notwithstanding she had been married since December 1747 to Gen. Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway, a prominent statesman and Secretary of State.

her cousin Caroline Campbell, whose first husband, the Earl of Dalkeith, died in 1750, was known as "Lady Dalkeith" even after her 1755 marriage to Charles Townshend, at least until she herself was created Baroness Greenwich.

[BREMENMURRAY]

Perhaps different for widows rather than divorcees?

[dpth...@gmail.com]

Another example is Maria Catharina de Jong, who was called "Lady Blandford" until her death in 1779, even after her second marriage in 1734 to Sir William Wyndham, though the Marquess of Blandford, her first husband, died in 1731.

But you're right.. probably divorcees did not follow this practice. In the same period, Lady Diana Spencer was known as "Lady Diana Beauclerk" after her second marriage to Topham Beauclerk, despite having been married to Lord Bolingbroke; and Anne Liddell, after divorcing the Duke of Grafton, was always known as "Lady Ossory" after she immediately married the Earl of Upper Ossory.