Marianna, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley, who died 5 July, 2022, aged 93, was the widow of Maj-Gen the 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley [1915-2006].
She served as High Sheriff of Kent 1981-82, and was a director of Allied Malta Newspapers, &c.
She was the former Marianna Laetitia Bower, born in 1929, at Andover, Hampshire, daughter of Commander Robert Tatton Bower [1894-1975], and his wife the Hon Henrietta Mary Caribbea Strickland [1903-75], daughter of the 1st [and last] Baron Strickland [1861-1940]; and married 30 Dec, 1950, the then Hon Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton [born 3 Nov 1915], son of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC [1891-1965], and his 1st wife the former, Mary Adelaide Somes Colyer-Fergusson [1892-1964], scion of the baronets of that name.
Her husband succeeded his father, 9 January, 1965, and died 22 June, 2006.
Viscountess Monckton leaves issue, four sons and a daughter. Her eldest son, Christopher, is the 3rd Viscount. The daughter, Rosa, was a confidante of Diana, Princess of Wales, and wife of the Hon Dominic Lawson, the journalist, sometime editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
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