Susan Lady Chitty 1929-2021

 Susan, Lady Chitty, the biographer and writer, who died 13 July, 2021, aged 91, was the widow of Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet [1926-2014].

Susan Chitty was born Susan Elspeth Hopkinson, 18 Aug, 1929, to an unmarried mother, the writer Antonia White [1899-1980], who would be best remembered for her novel Frost in May based on her years at a convent school before the First World War...Her mother, not naturally maternal and herself subject to mental ill-health and violent temper, had wanted a boy, and for some months put her daughter into a children’s home...Her fatther was Silas Glossop [1902-93].

She married 23 August, 1951, Thomas Willes Chitty, who succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1955, and who died 7 March, 2014.

She leaves issue, including Sir Andrew Chitty, 4th Baronet [born 20 Nov, 1953].

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