The trust has recently acquired a fine photograph of a young Lady Margaret Hermione Millicent Lytton (1905-2004) #491 on the family tree. She was the first daughter and second child of the 2nd Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India. She married the then Mr Cameron Cobbold (1904-1987) on 3rd April 1930 in the 12th century St Mary’s Church at Knebworth. Three years later her older brother was killed in a flying accident at Hendon and as if that wasn’t tragedy enough her younger brother died at El Alamein in 1942.
Her wedding was recorded in
The Tatler on 9th April 1930, a copy of which is now retained in the trust’s archive. Cameron Cobbold went on to be Governor of the Bank of England from 1949 to 1961 and Lord Chamberlain from1963 to 1971. He became the 1st Baron Cobbold of Knebworth in 1960.
Baron Cobbold of Knebworth in 1960.
