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Sunday, April 05, 2020

Elisabeth Lady Gordon Cumming [1929-2020]

_. Elisabeth Lady Gordon Cumming, died 4 April, 2020. She was 91.

She was born 14 March, 1929, the former Elisabeth Hinde, eldest daughter of Maj-Gen Sir William Robert Norris Hinde, KBE, CB, DSO, by his wife the former Evelyn Muriel Wright [1901-80], scion of that landed family, of Yeldersley.

Lady Gordon Cumming was a first cousin of Susan Mary Wright [later Ferguson and later Barrantes], mother of Sarah Duchess of York.

Her younger sister, Cathryn [born 1 Sept, 1931], was wife of the 6th Earl Cawdor [1932-93]

She married 15 July, 1953 [divorced 1972], as his first wife, Sir William Gordon Cumming, 6th Baronet [1928-2002], of Altyre.

She leaves issue, including Sir Alexander Gordon Cumming, 7th Baronet [born 15 Apr, 1954]

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