"style her ""the Dowager Countess of Avon"". Clarissa Eden Anne Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (""née"" Spencer-Churchill; born 28 June 1920) is the widow of Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977), who was UK Prime Minister from 1955–1957. She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, and then becoming Countess of Avon in 1961 on her husband's elevation to the peerage. She is also the niece of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Her memoir, sub-titled ""From Churchill to Eden"", was published in 2007 under the name of Clarissa Eden."
"Wilson of Rievaulx on 6 June 2018, Lady Avon is the oldest living wife of a UK Prime Minister. She was born in 1920, the daughter of Major Jack Spencer-Churchill (1880–1947), the younger brother of Winston Churchill, by his marriage to Lady Gwendoline (""Goonie"") Bertie (1885–1941), a daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon, who had been married in 1908. She is thus a niece of Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister during the Second World War, and a granddaughter of Lord Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886–87, and his wife the American society beauty Jennie Jerome. Her paternal"
"Street, the official residence of the prime minister, who at the time was Clarissa's uncle, Winston Churchill. Eden remains the only British Prime Minister to have been divorced (although he was one of nine to have been married twice). There was criticism of the marriage in the ""Church Times""—""Mr. Eden's action this week shows how far the climate of public opinion in this matter has changed for the worse""—and from some others in the Anglican church, including the Archbishop of Sydney, who drew parallels with Edward VIII's having given up the throne to marry an American divorcée. Harold Macmillan, among"
"and the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. Lady Avon has described this occasion as ""a nightmare, with news of people's deaths coming in ..."". After her mother's death in 1941, she stayed at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country home in Buckinghamshire. R. A. Butler, then Minister of Education, recalled a dinner party in Eden's flat above the Foreign Office, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Attempting to defuse an argument between Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook about their respective motivation during the Abdication crisis of 1936, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, just turned 21, proclaimed with patent improbability that she"
"Minister in the twentieth century. She was only 36 when her husband resigned, and was widowed at 56. She has outlived five later Prime Ministerial spouses and seen the administrations of 11 subsequent Prime Ministers. By contrast, Lady Dorothy Macmillan was 57 when her husband succeeded Eden and 63 when he resigned, dying just three years later, her husband outliving her by 20 years. As such Lady Avon has enjoyed unusual longevity for a Prime Ministerial spouse, contributing, for example, to a television documentary by Cherie Blair in 2005 about Prime Ministers' wives and to a three-part series the following"
"deep in conversation with T[ony] B[lair], the Countess of Avon, Macmillan's and Douglas-Home's families, and there was lots of reminiscing about life in Number 10. In 1994, 17 years after her husband's death, Lady Avon unveiled a bust of Eden at the Foreign Office. In 2013 she attended a memorial service for Sir Guy Millard (1917–2013), one of Eden's long-serving private secretaries and probably his last surviving close associate, having been with him and Churchill at wartime meetings with Roosevelt and Stalin and in Downing Street during the Suez Crisis. Lady Avon was the youngest wife of an incumbent Prime"
"attended the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Wilson died on 6 June 2018, of a stroke, in London aged 102. The longest-lived spouse of a British prime minister, she was the first and only to live beyond the age of 100 years. Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (; 12 January 19166 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is the only spouse of any Prime Minister to have died a centenarian. She was born in Diss, Norfolk,"
"of Salisbury) in 1936, when she was 16. He was already famous for his elegant attire and Homburg hat, and she was struck by Eden's unusual pinstriped tweed trousers. There was some further contact during the war, by virtue of the circles in which she and Eden both moved and through her uncle Winston, who became Prime Minister in May 1940. As an illustration of her occasional proximity to the centre of power, between meetings of the War Cabinet on 30 May 1940, when the Dunkirk evacuation was at its height, Clarissa was present when Churchill lunched with her parents"
"great-great-grandfather of David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Evan Henry Llewellyn Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn (25 February 1847 – 27 February 1914) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906. Llewellyn was the fourth son of Llewellyn Llewellyn of Buckland Filleigh, North Devon. He was educated at Rugby School. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset. He served in the British Army, where he was an officer in the 4th (Militia) battalion of the Somersetshire Light Infantry. Following"
"Westminster, 29 November 1845) Susannah Vautier (Stanton, Suffolk, c. 1819 - Thetford, Norfolk, 1859), by whom he had five children. His eldest son, Ewen Allan Cameron, senior partner in Panmure Gordon & Co. and member of the Council of Foreign Bondholders (who died 14 November 1937 in Vienna) was the great-grandfather of David Cameron, Conservative Party Leader (2005–2016) and British Prime Minister (2010–2016). After suffering bouts of ill health in 1903 and at the end of 1904, Sir Ewen retired in February 1905 and later died at home in Hampstead NW3 on 10 December 1908 at the age of 67."
"Christopher Soames, Baron Soames"" Descendants of Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill, son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955 and 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945. In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Blanche Hozier. By Clementine, Churchill had five children and ten grandchildren, a number of whom are well known in their own right. ""by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)"" ""by Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan Sandys"" ""by Pamela Digby"""
"Mary Grey, Countess Grey Mary Elizabeth Grey, Countess Grey (; 4 March 1776 – 26 November 1861) was a British aristocrat and Countess of Grey as wife of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She was also a four-times great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby was born on 4 March 1776 in Whitehaven. She was the only daughter of William Ponsonby (1744–1806), the future 1st Baron Ponsonby and his wife, the Honourable Louisa Molesworth (1749–1824), daughter of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth. She married on 18 November 1794 Charles Grey MP"
"Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (; 12 January 19166 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is the only spouse of any Prime Minister to have died a centenarian. She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the daughter of Reverend Daniel Baldwin, who was a Congregationalist minister. She attended boarding school at Milton Mount College near Crawley, leaving aged 16 to attend a secretarial course for two years. She was employed as a stenographer at Lever Brothers"
"Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (born 1948 in Woolwich, London) is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of OKA, a home furnishings design company. Prior to co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London. Her daughter Samantha is married to former British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron. She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford. She was educated at Lycée Français de Londres. Her mother was married secondly in 1961 to the Hon. Michael"
"published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2007, and Phoenix brought out a paperback edition in 2008. In 2004 Haste had collaborated with Cherie Booth, wife of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, to produce a biographical chapter about Lady Avon as part of a wider study of Prime Ministerial spouses. Clarissa Avon noted that after meeting Haste she realised that the latter's ""enthusiasm and professionalism could make it happen"". A photograph on the dust jacket of her memoir, depicting a young, pensive Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, cigarette in hand, conveyed an alluring and slightly Bohemian image. The book was generally well received"
"who died of a drug overdose in 1975. In later years, as a widow, she was evidently close to the influential solicitor Lord Goodman. Another long-standing social acquaintance was Labour Minister Roy (later Lord) Jenkins, also a friend of Ann Fleming. Jenkins's official biographer chose, as an example of the broadly-based groups Jenkins would entertain at his home at East Hendred, a small party assembled there in March 1994—Lady Avon, together with the architectural historian James Lees-Milne, Jenkins' publisher Roland Philipps and their wives. Clarissa Spencer-Churchill first met her future husband at Cranborne, Dorset (home of the future 5th Marquess"
"Margot Asquith Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (""née"" Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928. She was born in Peeblesshire (Tweeddale), of Scottish and English descent. She was the sixth daughter and eleventh child of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, an industrialist and politician, and Emma Winsloe. She was brought up at ""The Glen"", the family's country estate; Margot and her sister Laura"
"1904 – 1994). His eldest daughter Cecilia Mary (born 1931) married Sir William Dugdale, Warwickshire landowner and former chairman of Aston Villa football club, and is the mother of the documentary filmmaker Joshua Dugdale. His second daughter, Mary Fleur (b. 1934), married Ian Donald Cameron and is the mother of David Cameron, Conservative Party leader from 2005 to 2016, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He inherited the baronetcy and the family estate at Wasing Place in Berkshire on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father. On 25 February 1924, he was commissioned in"
"the third-worst Prime Minister since 1945, ranking above only Alec Douglas-Home and Anthony Eden. 90 per cent of respondents cited his calling and losing of the Brexit referendum as his greatest failure. In October 2016, Cameron became chairman of the National Citizen Service Patrons. In January 2017, he was appointed president of Alzheimer's Research UK to address misconceptions surrounding dementia and campaign for medical research funding to tackle the condition. All appointments post-premiership have to be approved by the UK government advisory committee. In addition to the two posts above they also approved the following positions: Cameron is married to"
"long-time private secretary of Winston Churchill, who in his younger days had been part of the same social ""set"" as Churchill's niece, recorded in his diary that Clarissa, who was staying at Churchill's home at Chartwell, Kent, was ""very beautiful, but ... still strange and bewildering"". He added that Churchill ""feels avuncular to his orphaned niece, gave her a cheque for £500 and told me that he thought she had a most unusual personality"". According to Lady Avon herself, Churchill's wife Clementine thought her ""too independent and totally unsuitable"", while the marriage is said to have exacerbated the antagonism towards"
"Helena Olivia Adeane, on 13 December 1952. Lady Belinda died of cancer in 1961. He married, secondly, Cecilia (Cylla) Mary Mount, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Nance Llewellyn, on 17 October 1967. Children of Sir William Dugdale, Bt and Lady Belinda Pleydell-Bouverie: Children of Sir William Dugdale, Bt and Cecilia Mary Mount: Dugdale's youngest son is the British documentary film-maker Joshua Dugdale. His niece Elizabeth Dugdale, daughter of his brother Sir John Dugdale, is a god-daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. The former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, is the"
"published by Oxford University Press in June 2014 as ""Margot Asquith's Great War Diaries"". Margot Asquith Emma Alice Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (""née"" Tennant; 2 February 1864 – 28 July 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1894 until his death in 1928. She was born in Peeblesshire (Tweeddale), of Scottish and English descent. She was the sixth daughter and eleventh child of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, an industrialist and politician, and Emma Winsloe. She was"
"Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon, OBE (3 October 1930 – 17 August 1985), styled Viscount Eden between 1961 and 1977, was a British Army officer and, later, a Conservative politician. He was the younger son of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his first wife, Beatrice (""née"" Beckett). Eden succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1977, his elder brother Pilot Officer Simon Gascoigne Eden having been killed in action in June 1945, while serving as a navigator with the RAF in Burma. Having risen to the rank of"
"Through her fourth daughter, also named Agnes, she is an ancestor of British prime minister David Cameron. She married James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, son of General Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Anne Stein, on 16 March 1846 at British Embassy, Paris, France. They had six children Agnes Duff, Countess Fife Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869) was an Irish-Scottish aristocrat. Agnes was born at Dublin, Ireland. She was the third child of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth FitzClarence, one of the illegitimate children of William IV and his mistress Dorothea"
"known as a writer and television host. His granddaughter Artemis Cooper has published several books, including ""A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper, 1913–50"". Another granddaughter is screenwriter Allegra Huston, the only child of Norwich and Enrica Soma Huston, estranged wife of the American film director John Huston. Duff Cooper's niece Enid Levita (daughter of his sister Stephanie), is the paternal grandmother of the Conservative Party leader David Cameron, who served as Prime Minister from 2010–2016. Cooper was raised to GCMG in 1948. He took on some company directorships, including that of the Wagons-Lits company, but essentially"
"Lady Iris Marina Aline Cholmondeley. David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley David George Philip Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, ; born 27 June 1960), styled Viscount Malpas from birth until 1968, and subsequently Earl of Rocksavage until 1990, is a British peer and filmmaker. He also acts as Lord Great Chamberlain of the United Kingdom, a role he is entitled to hold for the duration of present Queen's reign. Lord Cholmondeley is a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is the son of Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley, and his wife,"
"have three children and nine grandchildren: Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor Annabel Lucy Veronica Astor, Viscountess Astor (born 1948 in Woolwich, London) is an English businesswoman and socialite who is the CEO of OKA, a home furnishings design company. Prior to co-founding OKA, she was the owner and designer of the Annabel Jones jewellery business in London. Her daughter Samantha is married to former British prime minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron. She is the daughter of Timothy Angus Jones and his wife, Patricia David Pandora Clifford. She was educated at Lycée Français de Londres. Her mother was married secondly"
"Professor of Logic known for his libidinous lifestyle, although his womanising was not apparently extended to her. When Clarissa moved back to London, she decoded ciphers in the Communications Department of the Foreign Office, where her future husband was the Secretary of State from 1940 to 1945. One of her colleagues was Anthony Nutting, who in 1956 resigned from Eden's government because of his opposition to the Suez operation. For a time the future Lady Avon lived in a roof-top room at the Dorchester Hotel, which she obtained at a cut-price rate because of its vulnerability to bombing (although the"
"Descendants of Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill, son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955 and 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945. In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Blanche Hozier. By Clementine, Churchill had five children and ten grandchildren, a number of whom are well known in their own right. ""by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)"" ""by Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan Sandys"" ""by Pamela Digby"" ""by June Osborne"" ""by"
"Peter de Putron Peter Nicholas de Putron (born October 1963) is the chief executive officer of Bell Rock Capital Management LLP. De Putron is resident in Jersey and is the brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom, the British Conservative Party member of Parliament and financial services minister who was briefly a contender for the position of leader of the Conservative party and hence Prime Minister in July 2016. He has been a Conservative Party donor. His wife, Carolynne Hayley de Putron, is head of investor relations at De Putron Fund Management for which Andrea Leadsom also worked in the 1990s. De Putron"
"military service. Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon, OBE (3 October 1930 – 17 August 1985), styled Viscount Eden between 1961 and 1977, was a British Army officer and, later, a Conservative politician. He was the younger son of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his first wife, Beatrice (""née"" Beckett). Eden succeeded to the earldom on the death of his father in 1977, his elder brother Pilot Officer Simon Gascoigne Eden having been killed in action in June 1945, while serving as a navigator with the RAF in Burma. Having risen to the"
"held until 1963. Cramer was the only Catholic in the Liberal Party parliamentary team, a fact Menzies would often joke about. In 1964 he was created a Knight Bachelor. He retired from parliament before the 1974 election, and was succeeded by John Howard (later to become Prime Minister). He died on 18 May 1994, aged 98. In 1922 he married Mary Therese Earls, a teacher, and his elder by two and a half years. The couple had four children: John, Erle, Bronwyn and Leonie. For her four decades of service as a charity worker and community activist, Lady Cramer was"
"later, at the 1953 Labour National Conference, she was equally forthright.N""ellie Cressall, of Poplar, the widow of Labour pioneer George Lansbury’s election agent, who roused the audience to prolonged applause and cheering when she spoke at the annual Labour Party Conference here. Mrs Cressall, who is 69, has 26 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She attacked the Conservatives and the Housewives League on the cost-of-living cries. Aneurin Bevan – a master of fiery platform speaking – said her speech was the finest heard at the conference. Mrs Cressall ‘discovered’ the Prime Minister, when in 1907 he knocked at her door and"