Lettice Lygon


Lady Lettice Lygon was a member of the Bright Young Things.

Biography

Lady Lettice Lygon was born on 16 June 1906, the daughter of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp and Lady Lettice Mary Elizabeth Grosvenor.
Lady Lettice Lygon was "one of the tallest and prettiest members of the younger set". She was "the tallest débutante of her year". She was a friend of Daphne Fielding.
On 16 June 1930 she married Sir Richard Charles Geers Cotterell, 5th Bt.. They had four children: Rose Evelyn Cotterell, Anne Lettice Cotterell, Sir John Henry Geers Cotterell, 6th Bt., Thomas Richard Geers Cotterell. They divorced in 1958.
She died on 18 July 1973 aged 67.