Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss

Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss (18 August 1922 – 30 September 2012) was a British peer.

Mary Freeman-Grenville
12th Lady Kinloss
Tenure17 October 1944 – 30 September 2012
Born18 August 1922
Died30 September 2012
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Greville Freeman
Issue
ParentsLuis Morgan-Grenville[1]
Katherine Jackman[1]

The eldest of the three daughters of Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville and Katherine Beatrice MacKenzie Jackman, she was educated at Ravenscroft School Eastbourne. She was the senior heir-general to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, the only son of Lady Catherine Grey.[2]

She succeeded to the title Lady Kinloss on the death in 1944 of her grandmother, Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss. She married Dr Greville Stewart Parker Freeman (later Freeman-Grenville)[3] in 1950; they had one son and two daughters:

She sat as an independent crossbencher peer in the House of Lords from the implementation of the Peerage Act 1963, which allowed women peers in their own right to sit in the House, until the implementation of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 hereditary peers.[5] She served on the House of Lords Committee on European Communities from 1990-92.[6] She was unsuccessful in her bid to be elected as one of the retained 92 hereditary peers, coming 38th in a field of 79 candidates for 28 seats reserved for Crossbenchers.[7]

The 12th Lady Kinloss died on 30 September 2012. She was succeeded by her daughter, Teresa Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss.

References

  1. Kirk, Geoff, "The Jackmans, the blacksmiths of North Bucks", winslow-history.org.uk.
  2. Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss, National Portrait Gallery; retrieved 6 December 2011
  3. Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville #503757, thepeerage.com
  4. William the Conqueror Database; retrieved 6 December 2010
  5. FORMER WOMEN MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, Queen's University Belfast Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics; retrieved 6 December 2011.
  6. The Rt Hon Lady Kinloss, Debrett's; retrieved 6 December 2011.
  7. House of Lords Act: Hereditary Peers Elections; retrieved 6 December 2011.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Mary Morgan-Grenville
Lady Kinloss
1944–2012
Succeeded by
Teresa Freeman-Grenville
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