Elizabeth Belinda Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu ( Crossley; 11 January 1932 – 15 December 2022) was a British embroiderer and the wife of The 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, from 1958 until their divorce in 1974.

Early life

Belinda Crossley was born to Captain Hon. John Crossley and his second wife, the former Sybelle Drummond. Her father was a younger son of

Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton (14 June 1857 – 25 February 1935), known as Sir Savile Crossley, Bt, from 1872 to 1916, was a British Liberal Unionist politician who served as Paymaster General from 1902 to 1905. Background C ...

. In 1935, her father's older brother, Francis Savile Crossley, succeeded her grandfather as the

Baron Somerleyton Baron Somerleyton, of Somerleyton in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 26 June 1916 for the Liberal Unionist politician and former Paymaster-General Sir Savile Crossley, 2nd Baronet. The ...

. Her first cousin, Savile William Francis Crossley, was the 3rd Baron Somerleyton from 1959 until his death in 2012.

Personal life

Crossley married

Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015), was an English aristocrat and Conservative politician, best known for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivota ...

, in 1958. The couple's children: *Hon. Ralph Douglas-Scott-Montagu (b. 1961), the 4th Baron since August 2015 *Hon. Mary Scott (b. 1964) Lord and Lady Montagu of Beaulieu divorced in 1974. Beaulieu Abbey houses the former Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu's wall hangings which depict the abbey's history. She was the patron of the New Forest Association and was commissioned in 1979 to work on The New Forest Embroidery, in commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the creation of the

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, fea ...

. Lady Montagu died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 90.

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Early life

Personal life

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