Mitford family

The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family noted for their accomplishments in writing and their notorious lives, particularly of the daughters of the family, known as the Mitford sisters.

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Aristocrat - British

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They were the children of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (March 13 1878 – March 17 1958) and his wife Sydney Bowles. The family home was Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire.

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David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale - March 13 - 1878 - March 17 - 1958 - Sydney Bowles - Asthall Manor - Oxfordshire

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• Nancy Mitford (November 28, 1904 – June 30, 1973). Married Peter Rodd and had a longstanding relationship with French politician and statesman Gaston Palewski. Writer of many novels, including her most popular (and somewhat auto-biographical), The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
• Pamela Mitford (November 25, 1907 – April 12, 1994). Married Derek Jackson.
• Thomas Mitford (January 2, 1909 – March 30, 1945). Died unmarried.
• Diana Mitford (June 17, 1910 – August 11, 2003). Married aristocrat and writer Bryan Walter Guinness and British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.
• Unity Valkyrie Mitford (August 8, 1914 – May 28, 1948). Famous for her adulation of Adolf Hitler, shot herself in the head when the Second World War broke out, but failed to kill herself.
• Jessica Mitford (September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996). Married Esmond Romilly and Robert Treuhaft.
• Deborah Mitford (born March 31, 1920). She married Andrew Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire.