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Lady Dorothy Lygon (briefly Mrs Heber-Percy; 22 February 1912 – 13 November 2001) was an English socialite, and one of the Bright Young Things. She served as a Flight Officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during WWII, and later became an archivist.
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, KG, KCMG, CB, KStJ, PC (20 February 1872 – 14 November 1938), styled Viscount Elmley until 1891, was a British Liberal politician.
In 1985, he married Lady Dorothy Lygon, the fourth daughter of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, whom he had known for over fifty years; this relationship "cheered his later years, when he was lame from a stroke and several brushes with death" but they "parted amicably" a year later.
24 de abr. de 2015 · There’s nothing to smile at in the story of Heber-Percy’s unexpected late marriage to Lady Dorothy Lygon, an elderly friend whose sexier sister had frolicked with him in bygone years.
I’ve read a memoir written by Lady Dorothy Lygon – Poll or Coote - whereby she claims that Evelyn would retreat to this room groaning at the prospect of work, and that it wasn’t hard for the Lady Lygons to pull him away from the place to take part in some frolic or other.
10 de abr. de 2016 · When Dorothy Lygon read about Basil Seal unsuspectingly eating his girlfriend in an aromatic stew, she was back at her family home of Madresfield, the moated manor-house overlooking the Malvern Hills where Waugh had written Black Mischief, and on which he based his most vulnerable and popular work, Brideshead Revisited.
28 de jun. de 2020 · He referred to it only partially in jest as ‘my magnum opus’ and described it to his friend Lady Dorothy Lygon, the inspiration for the book’s Cordelia Flyte, as ‘a very beautiful book, to bring tears, about very rich, beautiful, high-born people who live in palaces and have no troubles except what they make themselves and ...
