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Marjorie Pratt

Died
August 24, 1989
Age
89 years

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Marjorie Pratt, 89, British aristocrat.

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Marjorie, Countess of Brecknock (born Marjorie Minna Jenkins Amelia Jenkins; 28 March 1900 – 24 August 1989) was a British aristocrat, courtier and socialite.

Early life

Brecknock was born at 48 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, the only child of Colonel Atherton Edward Jenkins and his wife, Anna Isabella (née Schoenbrunn), the niece of Sir Ernest Cassel. She was a second cousin (and life-long close friend) of Edwina Ashley, who married Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Family

She married John, Earl of Brecknock, eldest son of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden, and his wife, the former Lady Joan Marion Nevill, on 19 October 1920 in St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London. They had at least two children:

The Earl and Countess of Brecknock divorced in 1941.

Career

She was Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and Superintendent-in-Charge, St. John's Ambulance Brigade.

Honours

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