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Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland DBE (née Gordon-Lennox; 16 June 1887 – 3 March 1982) was Duchess of Portland from 1943 - 1977 and afterwards Dowager Duchess. She founded the Harley Foundation, "to encourage creativity". ==Parents (Algernon and Blanche Gordon-Lennox)== Ivy Gordon-Lennox was born in London〔(Profile ), geni.com; accessed 7 June 2015.〕 on 16 June 1887, the daughter of Colonel the Hon. Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox (b. 19 September 1847, London – d. 3 October 1921) and his wife, Blanche Maynard (b. 14 February 1864, London – d. 17 August 1945), who married at Easton on 31 August 1886. Ivy was their only child.〔(Ivy Gordon-Lennox profile at NPG website )〕〔〕 Ivy Gordon-Lennox's parents had a country house, Broughton Castle, near Banbury, which was rented from the 18th Lord Saye and Sele, and a house in London at 7 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair.〔Ruvigny & Raineval, Marquis of, ''The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Clarence Volume'' (page 238 ) online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 24 July 2008〕 Lord Algernon was the second of the four sons of the 6th Duke of Richmond (1818–1903), and his obituary in ''The Times'' called him "a notable social figure, whose popularity it would be difficult to over-estimate". He served in the Royal Navy, the Life Guards, and the Grenadier Guards, and was twelve years aide-de-camp to HRH The Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-chief of the British Army. Like her mother, Lady Blanche Gordon–Lennox, who was knighted as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1919; Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland would be created a DBE, almost forty years later in 1958. Ivy Gordon-Lennox's maternal grandfather was Colonel the Hon. Charles Maynard, a son of the 3rd Viscount Maynard,〔''Death of Lord Algernon Gordon-Lennox - a popular social figure'', ''The Times'', 5 October 1921, page 13.〕 while her three Gordon-Lennox uncles included the 7th Duke of Richmond (1845–1928), Captain Lord Francis Gordon-Lennox, who died before she was born, and Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox (1865–1922), a Conservative member of parliament.〔 On 1 January 1912, Ivy Gordon-Lennox was appointed a Maid of Honour to HM Queen Alexandra, the Queen Mother.〔:''"Marlborough House, 1st January, 1912. Queen Alexandra has been graciously pleased to appoint Miss Ivy Gordon-Lennox to be one of the Maids of Honour to Her Majesty in the room of the Honourable Blanche Lascelles, resigned."''〕 In 1915, during the First World War, she was Princess Victoria's representative in connection with proposed Nurses' Clubs in France, travelling to Étaples and Abbeville.〔(War Diary: May 1915 ) from National Archives (ref. WO95/3988) at scarletfinders.co.uk, accessed 24 July 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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