Marjorie Minna Jenkins Pratt, Countess of Brecknock, (28 March 1900 – 24 August 1989) was a British aristocrat, courtier and socialite.
Early life
Brecknock was born at 48
Grosvenor Square
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,
Mayfair
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, the only child of
Colonel
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In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, a colon ...
Atherton Edward Jenkins and his wife, Anna Isabella (''née'' Schoenbrunn), the niece of Sir
Ernest Cassel
Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, (3 March 1852 – 21 September 1921) was a British merchant banker and businessman. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17.
Life and career
Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Provinc ...
. She was a cousin (and life-long close friend) of
Edwina Ashley
Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (' Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960), was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st ...
, who married
Lord Louis Mountbatten
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, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
Family
She married
John Pratt, Earl of Brecknock, eldest son of
John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden
John Charles Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden (9 February 1872 – 15 December 1943), briefly styled Earl of Brecknock in 1872, was a British peer.
Background and education
Camden was born at Eaton Square, London, the third but only surviving son of ...
, and his wife, the former Lady Joan Marion Nevill, on 19 October 1920 in St. Margaret's Church,
Westminster
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,
London
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. They had at least two children:
* Lady Mary Clementine Pratt (1921–2002)
*
David George Edward Henry Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (born 1930)
The Earl and Countess of Brecknock divorced in 1941.
Career
She was Lady-in-Waiting to
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
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, and Superintendent-in-Charge,
St. John's Ambulance Brigade.
Honours
*:
** 2 June 1967: Dame Commander (DBE) of the
Order of the British Empire
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.
** 28 January 1971: Dame Grand Cross (GCStJ) of the
.
See also
*
Earl Camden
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The titl ...
References
* Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition'', 3 volumes (
Wilmington, Delaware
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: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, p. 653.
* 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
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Sited below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at ...
: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 137.
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1900 births
1989 deaths
Brecknock
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Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Nobility from London
English justices of the peace