Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper


Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper was an English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things crowd.

Biography

Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper was born on 3 October 1902, the daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury and Lady Constance Sibell Grosvenor.
On 27 November 1928 Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper married Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington. They had one daughter Hon. Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt.
She died at only 33 years old on 2 August 1936 and is buried at All Saints Churchyard, Witchampton. Her husband died of pneumonia while on active service during World War II in Cairo and is buried there.