Jane Margaret Kidd, horsewoman and dressage advocate and administrator, who died 21 August, 2025, aged 82, was a granddaughter of the newspaper tycoon and politician, the 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
Jane Kidd was born 3 June, 1943, daughter of Thomas Edward Dealtry Kidd, MBE (1910-1979), of Slythehurst, Ewehurst, co Surrey, and his wife (her third husband) the Hon Janet Gladys Aitken (1908-1988), former wife of (1) Ian Campbell (later 11th Duke of Argyll), from whom she was divorced, and (2) to Flying Officer the Hon William Drogo Sturges Montagu, scion of the Earls of Sandwich, who was killed in action in 1940.
Jane Kidd married in 1972 (div) as the second of his four wives, Graham Morison Vere Nicoll (1940-2022), son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Morison Vere Nicoll, DSO, OBE (1908-1999), and his wife the former Joan Madden (1912-2008), daughter of Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, 1st Baronet (1862-1935). The grande dame of British dressage leaves no issue.
Her niece Jemma Kidd (born 1974), is Marchioness Douro, wife of the Duke of Wellington's heir, Arthur Wellesley, styled Marquess Douro (born 1978).
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