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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Hon Penelope Mary Motion 1933-2023

 The Hon Penelope Motion (nee Harcourt), who died 18 April, 2023, in Western Australia, aged 89, was a scion of the extinct Viscounts Harcourt. 

She was born 17 May, 1933, second of the three daughters of the 2nd and last Viscount Harcourt, KCMG, OBE, DL (1908-1979), and his 1st wife the former Hon Maud Elizabeth Grosvenor (1909-2000), daughter of the 4th Baron Ebury (1883-1932).

She married 14 August, 1954, Maj Anthony David Motion (who died 7 Sept, 2012), son of Maj Malcolm Davie Motion, by whom she had issue, a son, Stephen (born 1 Aug, 1967), and a daughter Georgina (born 24 Oct, 1965). 

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