The Lady Pamela Blackmore, who died 25 March, 2025, aged 96, was a scion of the Earls of Kilmuir (ext).
She was born Pamela Maxwell-Fyfe, 14 October, 1928, the second of the three daughters of the then David Maxwell Fyfe (born 29 May 1900), and his wife the former Sylvia Margaret Harrison, DBE (later Countess De La Warr), sister of the English actor, Sir Rex Harrison.
Her father, a lawyer, was MP for West Derby, deputy chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor for a decade from 1952. He was created Viscount Kilmuir in 1954, and Earl of Kilmuir in 1962. He was GCVO (1953), PC (1945), and died 27 January, 1967 when his honours became extinct.
She married 1stly, 24 May, 1950, Clive Wigram, barrister-at-law (who died 17 Aug, 1956), son of Nathan Graham Wigram (1899-1944), of Sloane Street, SW3, by his wife the former Dorothy Lilian Woolfe (1892-1982); and married 2ndly, 1957, Courtenay Thomas Gardner Blackmore (1922-1992), son of William Blackmore, by his wife the former Isabella Armstrong.
She leaves a daughter from her first marriage, Caroline (b 20 Feb, 1952), and a son and two daughters from her second marriage, Thomas David Maxwell Fyfe Blackmore (b 1960), and two daughters, Katharine Fanny (b 1958), and Victoria Jane (b 1965).
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