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Margaret Irby
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Frances Margaret Wodehouse, Countess of Kimberley (1 December 1884 – 4 January 1950), was an English socialite and member of the Bright Young Things.[1] She married three times, always to members of the British aristocracy.[2] She scandalised society when she went to live with her future second husband without waiting for her divorce to be effective.[3]
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Biography
Frances Margaret Irby was the only daughter of Lt.-Col. Leonard Howard Loyd Irby and Mary Brandling.[4]
From her presentation at court on 1 June 1906, presented by Lady de Blaquiere,[5] Irby was, according to the journals of the time, somewhat wild. She married three times.[3]
On 12 December 1905, Irby married Sir Morgan George Crofton, 6th Baronet (1879–1958), son of Capt. Edward Hugh Crofton and Isabel Annie Julia Miller; they divorced on 8 April 1910. They had one son, Major Morgan George Crofton (1907–1947).[4] Irby left Crofton for James Montagu without waiting for the divorce, creating a huge scandal, since she went to live with Montagu.[3]
On 22 October 1910 she married James Fountayne Montagu (1887–1971) of Papplewick Hall, son of James Wilson Montagu and Laura Adeline Thellusson; they divorced 1921.[4]
On 5 May 1922 she married John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley, son of John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley, and Isabel Geraldine Stracey.[6] When they married, a reporter asked the question "Can Lord Wodehouse's Love Tame His Lively Bride?"[3] They had one son, John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley (1924–2002).[4]
Lady Kimberley died on 4 January 1950.[4]
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