Born as Raine McCorquodale. Mother Barbara Cartland. Worked for the preservation of ancient buildings. Her second, of three, marriages made her stepmother to Diana, soon to be, Princess of Wales.
She died, aged 87 years, on 21 October 2016. Her Wikipedia page and her obituary in The Guardian newspaper give much information about this lady.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Raine, Lady Dartmouth, Countess Spencer
The plaque is a perfectly nice pub plaque but the pub is adorned with many lo...
Active in 1930. Trying to research this we found a number of "Lincoln Committee"s, possibly one for every Lincoln memorial ever erected.
From their website: "The Belsize Residents Association grew out of a campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s to stop the area being split in two by a motorway." The group "seek to preserve the ...
From the Trust's website: "Our purpose is to study and celebrate the life and works of Sir Nigel Gresley in particular, and the works and achievements of the London & North Eastern Railway in g...
Author of "The History of London Transport" published in 4 vols 1974- 1976
Historian. Born Roy Sydney Porter at Foxholes, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Published his first book 'The Making of Geology in Britain' in 1977. He was a lecturer at Cambridge and the Wellcome Institute...
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