Lady Jean Alice Elaine Cochrane
| Lady Jean Alice Elaine Cochrane | |
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| Born | 27 November 1887 50 Eaton Place, London |
| 💀Died | 5 January 1955 (aged 67) Dundonald, South Ayrshire5 January 1955 (aged 67) |
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Lady Jean Alice Elaine Cochrane later Jean Hervey and then Lady Jean MacDonald (1887–1955) was a Welsh and Scottish aristocrat. She was the daughter of Winifred, Countess of Dundonald and Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald.[1][2] She appeared in British publications and divorced her unfaithful husband. She remarried to a Member of Parliament and launched the warship HMS Enchantress.
Work and duties
Jean was a famous figure in her time, in her youth, she modelled for prominent publications and appeared in The Bystander[3], Tatler[4][5], Country Life[6], and The Sketch[7].
During the first world war, Lady Jean became a nurse who treated the casualties.[8]
On 14 July 1937 she launched the Royal Navy warship HMS Enchantress.[9]
Personal life
Lady Jean was the fourth child to Winifred and Douglas Cochrane, who spent most of her youth at Gwrych Castle.[10][11]
On the 19th of October, 1914 she married Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol with whom, produced a son; Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, his godmother was the Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.[12]
In 1932, after lady Jean discovered that her husband was having an affair at their Portman Square apartment, she filed for divorce on grounds of adultery and in July of that same year, the divorce was granted without Herbert contesting, with Portsmouth Evening News's divorce section, stating; "Lady Jean complained of her husband's association with other women shortly after they were married, and differences arose".[13]
On December of 1933, Lady Jean remarried at a London register office to a Captain Peter Macdonald[14] where she lived the remaining of her life with until her death in 1955. Peter, later Sir Peter, was a career Conservative politician for the Isle of Wight.[15]
References
- ↑ Hampshire Advertiser - Wednesday 30 November 1887 - Page 2 [Article title; Births]
- ↑ Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 06 January 1955 - Page 16 Death of Lady Jean Macdonald
- ↑ The Bystander - Wednesday 20 October 1909
- ↑ The Tatler - Wednesday 02 August 1916
- ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001852/19061107/011/0009 - The Tatler - Wednesday 07 November 1906
- ↑ Country Life Magazine 12 April 1919
- ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001860/19180206/001/0001 - The Sketch - Wednesday 06 February 1918
- ↑ Daily Mirror - Thursday 19 October 1916
- ↑ "HMS Bittern, sloop". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ↑ Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 06 February 1933 (Page 7)
- ↑ The Sketch - Wednesday 06 February 1918 (Cover page)
- ↑ Daily Mirror - Thursday 10 May 1917 [Page 10]
- ↑ Portsmouth Evening News - Friday 29 July 1932 - page 12
- ↑ Liverpool Echo - Thursday 14 December 1933 - Page 9
- ↑ "Captain Sir Peter Macdonald: speeches in 1955 (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
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