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Eva Isabel Marion Primrose, Countess of Rosebery and Midlothian
DBE
JP (
née Bruce ; 17 June 1892 – 29 January 1987) was the English daughter of
Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare and his wife, Constance.
Personal life
Eva Isabel Marion Bruce married, firstly,
Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper on 26 April 1911 in
St. Margaret's, Westminster . The couple were divorced in 1922 after having three children:
[1]
She married, secondly, to
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery , on 24 June 1924 and they had two children:
She was the mother-in-law of
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk who married her daughter, Lavinia Strutt, in 1937. She died on 29 January 1987, aged 94.
Honours
She held the office of
Justice of the Peace (JP) for
Buckinghamshire . She was invested as a
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (
DBE ) in 1955. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of Laws (
LL.D ) from the
University of Edinburgh in 1957. She was decorated with the
Chevalier of the
Legion of Honour .
References
^
"Lady Belper Is Granted Divorce" . The Ottawa Journal . 27 April 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.
Wilmington, Delaware :
Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, pp. 1277–1278, volume 3, page 3398.
Sources
Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition , 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 1999), volume 1, page 9.
Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 86.
Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition , 3 volumes (
Wilmington, Delaware :Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 340.