Dame Beatrix Margaret Lyall
(1873-1948), Leader of the Mothers Union and politicanSitter in 6 portraits
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1924
NPG x122866
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x186059
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 8 January 1940
NPG x27055
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 8 January 1940
NPG x27056
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 8 January 1940
NPG x85217
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass copy negative, copied May 1948
NPG x189332
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John Lonsdale
31 December 2020, 15:55
Dame Beatrix was my maternal grandmother. I knew her for only her last three years of life, when she spent much time in bed in Kensington's Prince of Wales Hotel. I was eleven years old when she died and always rather intimidated by her. I now feel that was unfair. She was indeed formidable (and her political career tells you that). But when I knew her in her old age she had also endured much tragedy. Her daughter, my mother, had died in 1937, three days after I was born; her husband died a year later; throughout the Second World War she worried about her son-in-law, my father, who was a prisoner of war in German, and about her son, my uncle Archie Lyall on rather secretive military service, and me her only grandchild then a war refugee in the USA. She made me lose my American accent very quickly on my return at the end of the war.
John Lonsdale (Emeritus Professor of Modern African History, University of Cambridge)