The Dowager Countess of Mansfield and Mansfield, who died 2 October, 2022, aged 87, was widow of the 8th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield [1930-2015], a government minister in the Thatcher administration.
She was the former Pamela Joan Foster, daughter of Wilfred Neill Foster, CBE, of Port of Spain, Trinidad, by his wife the former Millicent Agnes Mary Duckham [died 1981] [who married 2ndly, in 1948, the 2nd Baron Cochrane of Cults [1883-1968].
She married 19 December, 1955, William David Mungo James Murray, styled Viscount Stormont [born 7 July, 1930], son and heir of the 7th Earl of Mansfield & Mansfield [1900-1971], of Scone Palace, Perthshire, and his wife the former Dorothea Helena Carnegie [1906-85], scion of the Earls of Southesk [later Dukes of Fife].
Her husband was appointed a member of the first British delegation to the European Parliament from 1973 to 1975 (prior to the direct election of MEPs), and was an opposition spokesman in the House of Lords from 1975 to 1979. This was followed by serving as a Minister of State in the Scottish Office from 1979 to 1983 in Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative administration and then in the Northern Ireland Office from 1983 to 1984. Her husband had succeeded to his father's peerages, 7 September, 1971, and died 21 Oct, 2015.
The Countess leaves issue, two sons, Alexander Davd Mungo, the 9th Earl [born 17 Oct, 1956], and the Hon James Murray [b 7 June, 1969], and a daughter, Lady Georgiana Dorothea Mary Bullough [born 10 Mar 1967].
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