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Tuesday, July 04, 2023

Hon Valentine Harriet Isabella Dione Arnold-Forster 1930-2023

The Hon Valentine Harriet Isabella Dione Arnold-Forster (née Mitchison), died 27 May, 2023, aged 92.

She was bortn in 1930, a daughter of the life peer the Baron Mitchison, CBE (1894-1970), the Labour politician, and his wife the former Naomi Mary Margaret Haldane, scion of that landed gentry family, (the novelist Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999); and married 12 January, 1955, Mark Arnold-Forster, DSO, DSC (1920-1981), head of that landed gentry family, son of Lieutenant-Commander William Edward Arnold-Forster, RN (1886-1951), and his first wife the former Katharine Laird Cox (1886-1951), by whom she had three sons.

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