Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough

The Right Honourable
The Lady Desborough
in Siegfried Sassoon's car
Born27 June 1867
Died28 May 1952
NationalityBritish
Known forsociety hostess

Ethel Anne Priscilla Grenfell, Baroness Desborough (née Fane; 27 June 1867 – 28 May 1952) was a British society hostess.

Life

Ettie photographed by Lord Battersea

Ethel (Ettie) Fane was born into an aristocratic family. However, at the age of three she was orphaned when her father, Julian Fane, the younger son of an earl, died at the age of 42, soon after the death of Ettie's mother.

Fane married William Grenfell in 1887. He was at the time untitled but he was a Member of Parliament, first for the Liberal Party and then for the Conservative Party. William and Ethel had a happy marriage, but Ethel also had male admirers. One of those was Archie Ian Gordon who was the son of John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair. He was devoted to her and she lost him when he died in a car crash in 1909.[citation needed]

From 1911, Ettie was periodically in waiting as Lady of the Bedchamber to Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V. When she was appointed, her son was surprised as the idea of a Lady of the Bedchamber seemed anachronistic.[1]

Three of her sons predeceased her. Julian Grenfell, a war poet, was killed in the First World War. News of his being wounded was given to her via one of her daughters who was serving as a nurse in France. Julian's elder sister Monica Margaret Grenfell had undertaken three months 'special training' in nursing at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes just after the outbreak of war.[2] Ethel travelled to France to see her son who had a splinter in his brain. Julian took 13 days to die. Another son, Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell, was killed only months later in July 1915. A third son, Ivo Grenfell, who became a farmer, died in a car accident in 1926.[citation needed]

She was a well known hostess; Winston Churchill and H. G. Wells were amongst her guests, and she was said to be the confidante of six prime ministers (Rosebery, Balfour, Asquith, Baldwin, Chamberlain and Churchill). She and her husband were members of the social group known as "The Souls".[citation needed] Visitors included Henry Irving, Vita Sackville-West, Edward VII when Prince of Wales, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde.

References

  1. ^ Richard Davenport-Hines (15 November 2012). Ettie: The Intimate Life And Dauntless Spirit Of Lady Desborough. Orion. ISBN 978-0-297-85622-1.
  2. ^ Monica, Grenfell, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/23, 145; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museum, London

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ethel Fane.
  1. ^ Ettie, book review, The Independent, Retrieved 1 February 2016

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