Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill
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Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill, Template:Postnominals (Template:Nee Lady Margaret Lygon; 8 October 1874 – 12 December 1957) was an English courtier and Red Cross volunteer, known for her long friendship with Queen Mary.[1]
Life and career
Russell was born at 13, Belgrave Square, London,[2] to Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp and Lady Mary Stanhope, daughter of Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope. She married the 2nd Baron Ampthill, a civil servant, in 1894.[3]
Lord Ampthill served as Governor of Madras from 1900 to 1906. Lady Ampthill was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Crown of India in 1900 and awarded a gold Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1906.[1][3]
Lady Ampthill first became friends with Queen Mary in 1891, when she was known as Princess May. Lady Margaret was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary in 1911, but was honoured by four monarchs for her charity work.[1]
In 1918, she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War and a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1946 for her work as a courtier. She was also a Dame of Grace of the Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.[3]
She died in hospital in London after a long illness.[1] After her death, Viscount Templewood eulogised her in The Times and commented on her friendship with Queen Mary:
Issue
Lady Margaret married Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill in Madresfield, Worcestershire on 6 October 1894, two days before her 20th birthday. The Ampthills had four sons and one daughter:[3]
- John Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill (1896–1973), succeeded his father
- Admiral Hon. Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell (1898–1977), Royal Navy commander
- Wing Commander Hon. Edward Wriothesley Curzon Russell Template:Post-nominals (2 June 1901 – 1982), married Baroness Barbara Korff and had issue
- Brig Hon. Leopold Oliver Russell Template:Post-nominals (26 January 1907 – 1988)
- Hon. Phyllis Margaret Russell Template:Post-nominals (3 June 1909[4][5] – c. 16 April 1998), Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Mary, married William George Preston Thorold (annulled 1942)
She died in Hammersmith, London, aged 83.
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- Ladies of the Bedchamber
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- Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
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