Anne de Courcy

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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