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Name: HOLCROFT, Maybel Elizabeth 'Betty', Lady
Nee: Playfair, dau of Raymond Playfair of Nairobi
Birth Date: 6.11.1905 Mandalay
Death Date: 8.8.1987 Newbury, Berks.
Area: Nairobi
Married: 1. At Nairobi Cathedral 28 Feb 1933 Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon (div. 1946); 2. In Chelsea 20 Oct 1965 Sir Reginald Culcheth Holcroft, 2nd bt., b. 1899 Upper Swinford, Worcester, d. 6 June 1978 Pulverbatch, Shropshire
Children: Jennifer Jane (1935-2010); Frances Elizabeth (1943)
Book Reference: EAWL, Burke, Peerage
General Information:
Source: Mrs L.J. Wray
Gazette 17 Mar 1989 - probate
Many years a member of the EAWL and on many occasions did the flowers and helped on the stand at the Chelsea Flower Show