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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Lady Elizabeth Leslie Melville (nee Compton) 1944-2023

 The Lady Elizabeth (Eliza) Leslie Melville (nee Compton), who died 13 August, 2023, aged 78, was a scion of the Marquesses of Northampton.

She was born Lady Elizabeth Compton, 7 December, 1944, second daughter of the 6th Marquess of Northampton (1885-1978), and his second wife the former Virginia Lucie Heaton (1919-1997); and married 30 March, 1968, (Ian) Hamish Leslie Melville (born 22 Aug, 1944), scion of the Earls of Leven & Melville, son of Major Michael Ian Leslie Melville (1918-1997), and his wife the former Cynthia Hambro (1921-1986), scion of that eponymous banking dynasty; by whom she had issue, two sons, James Ian (born 4 Sept, 1969), and Henry Bingham (born 30 January, 1975).

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