The Viscountess Knollys, OBE 1937-2022

 The Viscountess Knollys, OBE, wife of the 3rd Viscount, died 26 September, 2022. She was 84.

Viscountess Knollys was born 5 December, 1937, as Sheelin Virginia Maxwell, scion of the Barons Farnham, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon Somerset Arthur Maxwell [1905-42], and his wife the former Angela Susan Roberts [died 10 Apr, 1953], and was a sister of the 12th Baron Farnham [1931-2001], and the 13th Baron Farnham [born 12 Dec, 1933]. She was raised to the rank of a Baron's daughter in 1959.

She married 1 Oct, 1959, the then Hon David Francis Dudley Knollys [born 12 June, 1931], son of the 2nd Viscount Knollys [1895-1966], and his wife the former Margaret Mary Josephine Coats [died 1987]. Her husband succeeded his father, 3 Dec, 1966, as the 3rd Viscount Knollys [Peerage of the UK, cr 1911].

Viscountess Knollys, whose home was in Norwich, leaves issue, three sons, Capt the Hon Patrick Knollys, Capt the Hon Christopher Knollys, sometime Equerry to HRH The Duke of Kent, and Capt the Hon Michael Knollys, and a daughter the Hon Clarinda Snowball.

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