Marie-Thérèse, Viscountess Sidmouth (died 2025)

Marie-Thérèse, Viscountess Sidmouth, who died 23 January, 2025, aged 97, was the second wife of the late 7th Viscount Sidmouth.

She was born Marie-Thérèse Sheridan, daughter of Sir Joseph Alfred Sheridan (1882-1964), sometime Chief Justice of Kenya, by his wife the former Muriel Macaulay; and married 1stly, 11 July, 1950, Francis Anthony Baring Pollen (1926-1987), scion of the baronets of that name, son of Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen (1899-1968), and his wife the Hon Daphne Baring (1904-1986), daughter of the 3rd Baron Revelstoke (1864-1934). She married 2ndly, 2 October, 1993, as his second wife, John Addington, 7th Viscount Sidmouth (born 3 Oct, 1914), son of the 6th Viscount Addington (1887-1976), and his wife the former Gladys Mary Dever Hughes (who died 14 Apr, 1983). The 7th Viscount Sidmouth died 30 January, 2005.

From her first marriage she leaves issue, a son, John Pollen (born 23 Aug, 1959), and four daughters, (1) Mary Clare (born 2 June, 1951), who is Countess of Oxford & Asquith; (2) Katherine (born 25 July, 1954), Roseanna (born 25 Oct, 1956), and Mary Louise (born 29 June, 1969).

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