Nicholson, Lady Pauline Anne (nee Ogilvie-Grant) (1944-2010)

[Richard R]

She was the dau of the Countess of Seafield in her own right and Derek
STUDLEY-HERBERT (later OGILVIE-GRANT, scion of the LG family DE
CHAIR). She m1 1964 (div 1970) James Henry Harcourt ILLINGWORTH (scion
of the LG families of ILLINGWOTH and GOLD formerly of Hedsor); m2 1972
(div 1976) Sir William Gordon GORDON CUMMING 6th Bt (d 2002); m3 1976
(div) Hugh Richard SYKES (by whom she had a son, Harry Peter Derek b
1977) and m4 1989 David John NICHOLSON

Extract from The Telegraph's obit:
Lady Pauline Nicholson, who died on January 10 aged 65, was a classic
example of the poor-little-rich-girl in the Swinging Sixties, exuding
a happy innocence yet going on to marry four husbands and to earn a
reputation north of the border as "the Lady Chatterley of the
Highlands".
She was born Pauline Anne Ogilvie-Grant on May 26 1944 to the
Countess of Seafield, who had caused a scandal of her own by eloping
at 26 to make a marriage that broke down after Pauline was born.
Lady Seafield was a peer in her own right and was said to have been
the richest woman in Scotland after the Queen. Her daughter grew up a
shy, stammering girl at Cullen House, near the Banffshire coast, where
her main company was a nanny and the chauffeur, whom she called "Pop"
– to the distress of her father on the rare occasions they met. ....
After being refused permission to share a flat with another girl,
she married her brother-in-law, Jamie Illingworth, at 19. The match
collapsed after two years: "All I did was to swap one sort of a prison
for another," she recalled.
By the time Pauline divorced in 1970, her parents were dead, and she
had inherited the twin Revack and Dorback estates, which included
26,900 acres of grouse moor, deer forest, salmon fishing and 15
tenanted farms on Speyside.
Her next marriage, in 1972, was to a long-standing boyfriend, the
Scottish landowner Sir William Gordon-Cumming of Forres, 6th Bt and
Chief of the Clan Cumming. They had been stepping out for some years,
and it seemed a natural alliance. ....
But this too failed after four years. Then she married, in 1976,
Hugh Sykes, a businessman with whom she had a son, which did not
prevent another divorce. ....
She met her fourth husband, whom she married in 1989, while drinking
at his hotel at Nethy Bridge. Unlike his predecessors, Dave Nicholson
brought her lasting happiness.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7223151/Lady-Pauline-Nicholson.html

[Richard R]

Here's her death notice from the Telegraph of January 16th, 2010

NICHOLSON
Lady Pauline Anne died peacefully at home on Sunday 10th January 2010
after a long illness. Beloved wife of David and mother to Harry. A
private Service will take place at Weymouth Crematorium. A Memorial
Service will take place at a later date. Donations, if desired, for
Weldmar Hospicecare Trust may be sent c/o A J Wakely & Sons, 91 East
Street, Bridport, DT6 3LB

> brought her lasting happiness.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7223151/Lady-Pauline-Nicho...