Ancestral Trails 2016 » Viola Maud LYTTLETON (1912-1987)

Personal data Viola Maud LYTTLETON 


Household of Viola Maud LYTTLETON

She is married to Robert George GROSVENOR.

They got married on December 3, 1946 at Worcester, Worcestershire, she was 34 years old.


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    • Notes about Viola Maud LYTTLETON

    Viola Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (10 June 1912 - 3 May 1987) was the wife of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster.

    Born Viola Maud Lyttelton, she was the daughter of Sir John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham and Violet Yolande Leonard.

    She married Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, son of Captain Hugh William Grosvenor and Lady Mabel Florence Mary Crichton, on 3 December 1946. The family had a home at Ely Lodge, just west of Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.

    As the Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton she gained the rank of Flying Officer in the service of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, during the Second World War, where she was mentioned in despatches.

    Her marriage to the Duke of Westminster produced three children:

    Lady Leonora Mary Grosvenor (born 1 February 1949); formerly married to Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (3 children), has not remarried
    Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (22 December 1951 - 9 August 2016)
    Lady Jane Meriel Grosvenor (born 8 February 1953); married firstly to Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (3 children, including Charles Innes-Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford) and then to Edward William Dawnay, who is a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Westminster

    From 1979 until her death in 1987 she was Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh. She famously ordered workmen to drill holes in the ceiling of Florence Court, the stately home in County Fermanagh, to drain water away during a serious fire which almost destroyed it in 1955.

    The Duchess died in a car accident near Dungannon, County Tyrone on 3 May 1987, aged 74.
    SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Grosvenor,_Duchess_of_Westminster

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Birthday June 10, 1912

  • The temperature on June 10, 1912 was between 9.6 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The Republic of China is established.
    • March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
    • September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
    • October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
    • October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
    • November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.

Day of marriage December 3, 1946

  • The temperature on December 3, 1946 was between 1.8 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • January 22 » In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
    • May 10 » First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
    • May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
    • August 7 » The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
    • October 1 » The Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.
    • December 21 » An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.

Day of death May 3, 1987

  • The temperature on May 3, 1987 was between 2.5 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
    • February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
    • June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
    • June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
    • June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
    • August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
    • September 2 » In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.


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