Anne de Courcy

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Anne Grey de Courcy (née Barrett; born 1927)[1] is an English biographer and journalist, including as women's editor on the London Evening News, as a columnist for the London Evening Standard and as a feature writer for the Daily Mail.[2]

Early life and education[]

Anne Grey Barrett was born in 1927, daughter of Major John Lionel Mackenzie Barrett (d. 1940),[3] of The Tallat, Northleach, Gloucestershire, an officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, and Evelyn Kathleen Frances (1898-1987), daughter of Thomas Stewart Porter, of Clogher Park, County Tyrone (he took his mother's family name, Porter, instead of his father's, Ellison-Macartney, as an heir of the Porter family of Belle Isle, County Longford)[4] Her mother was a descendant of Sir Alan Bellingham, 3rd Baronet. A brother, Christopher, was born in 1930.[5][6][7]

She was educated at Wroxall Abbey, in Warwickshire.[8]

Career[]

De Courcy worked for the London Evening News as women's editor in the 1970s. In 1980, de Courcy joined the London Evening Standard as a columnist. Between 1982 and 2003, she was a feature writer for the Daily Mail.

Since 1969, she has produced a number of books, including biographies and social histories.[9]

Personal life[]

In 1951, she married firstly Michael Charles Cameron Claremont Constantine de Courcy, a journalist and RAF officer, half-brother of John de Courcy, 35th Baron Kingsale. He was killed in a flying accident in 1953, aged 22.[10] She married secondly, in 1959, barrister Robert Armitage (1921-1998), of a landed gentry family of Milnsbridge House, Huddersfield; they had three children.[11][12][13]

Bibliography[]

  • Kitchens (1969)
  • Plan your Home: Starting from Scratch (1970)
  • Making Room at the Top (1974)
  • A Guide to Modern Manners (1985)
  • 1939: The Last Season (1989)
  • Circe: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry (1992)
  • The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters (2000)
  • Diana Mosley (2003)
  • Debs at War 1939-1945 (2005)
  • Snowdon: The Biography (2008)
  • The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj (2012)
  • Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street 1912-1916 (2014)
  • The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York (2017)

References[]

  1. ^ "ANNE de Courcy Limited".
  2. ^ Peter Stanford (29 October 2014). "Meet Margot Asquith – a prime minister's wife who was more vilified than Cherie..." The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Wills and Estates". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 4 September 1940. p. 10.
  4. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, ed. A. C. Fox-Davies, Harrison & Sons, 1912, p. 571
  5. ^ Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Dean & Son Ltd, 1931, p. cv
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2177
  7. ^ Contemporary Authors, vol. 121, Gale Group, 2004, p. 111
  8. ^ Contemporary Authors, vol. 121, Gale Group, 2004, p. 111
  9. ^ Contemporary Authors, vol. 121, Gale Group, 2004, p. 111
  10. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2177
  11. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 8th edition, vol. 1, ed. Ashworth P. Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1894, p. p. 40
  12. ^ Landed Families of Britain, 23 July 2015, Armitage of High Royd and Milnsbridge House, Nicholas Kingsley
  13. ^ "Kingsale, Baron (I, c.1340)".

born 1937 - Daughter of John Lionel Mackenzie Barrett, author of Practical Jumping .

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