Jean Constance Toynbee (nee Asquith), who died 14 January, 2026, aged 105, was a GP in Oxford and rural North Yorkshire, the wife of the artist Lawrence Toynbee, a granddaughter of the prime minister HH Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford & Asquith – and a last exemplar of upper-class upbringing in the interwar era...
She was born 6 November, 1920, second of the four daughters of Brigadier General the Hon Arthur Melland Asquith (1883-1939), and his wife the former Hon Betty Constance Manners (1889-1962), daughter of the 3rd Baron Manners (1852-1927).
She married 20 April, 1945, Lawrence Toynbee (1922-2002), the artist, son of Prof Arnold Joseph Toynbee, CH, FBA (1889-1975), the historian, and his wife the former Rosalind Murray (1890-1967), a granddaughter of the 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911), by whom she had issue, six daughters, Rosalind, Celia, Clare, Rachel, Sarah and Frances.
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