Ruth, Viscountess Mountgarret, who died 20 October, 2025, aged 80, was the third wife and widow of the late 17th Viscount Mountgarret.
She famously modelled Silvikrin shampoo in the TV advert in the 1960s.
She was Angela Ruth Porter, born in 1945, daughter of Major Thomas Porter, of Church Croft, Tadcaster, and his wife the former Audrey Mathers; and married firstly in 1968, John Waddington (of the Leeds playing card and board game manufacturing family); married 2ndly, 25 May, 1983, as his third wife, Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret (born 8 November, 1936), son of the 16th Viscount Mountgarret (1903-1966), and his wife the former Eglantine Marie Elizabeth Christie (1908-1990), scion of that landed gentry family.
The 17th Viscount Mountgarret died 7 February, 2004.
Viscountess Mountgarret leaves issue from her first marriage.
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