Anne Wignall, known as Baroness Ebury and Lady Ebury (

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Acland-Troyte; 12 June 1912 – 23 June 1982), was an English socialite and author known as Alice Acland and Anne Marreco.

Family life

Anne Wignall was born Anne Acland-Troyte in the

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, the daughter of Herbert Walter Acland-Troyte and Marjorie Florence Pym. She had one younger brother, John Acland-Troyte. She married: *On 1 July 1933, the 5th Baron Ebury (1914-1957). They had two sons, Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (born 1934) and the Hon. Robert Victor Grosvenor (1936–1993). They were divorced in 1941. During their marriage they lived at Redheath (now

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), Croxley Green, Watford, Kingston Bagpuize House, North Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire) and Day's House (now Philberd's Manor), East Hanney, Berkshire. *On 23 December 1941, Henry Peregrine Rennie Hoare (1901–1981). They were divorced in 1947. *On 13 November 1947, Lt.-Col. Frederick Wignall (1906–1956). They had one daughter, Caroline Louisa Wignall (born 1948). She was widowed in 1956. *On 25 September 1961,

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(1915–2006), a

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, and later a founding director of

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. She changed her name back to Wignall by deed poll in 1969 and died in 1982 in Tiverton, Devon. She is buried in the churchyard at All Saints Church, Huntsham close to her father's ancestral seat,

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Bibliography

Anne Wignall wrote 11 books under two different names: As Alice Acland *''

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, 1948) , a biography of the English social reformer and author *''Templeford Park'' (Constable, 1954) , a tale of country life in contemporary 1950s Britain *''A Stormy Spring'' (Constable, 1955) , a novel set in Sussex, Bruges and Paris, about the life of a fictional young lady, Emily Satersham *''A Second Choice'' (Constable, 1956) , a novel about a young girl in love with a philandering middle-aged married man *''A Person of Discretion'' ( Collins, 1958) , story of three sisters from Brussels becoming entangled in the

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and the resistance during the closing stages of the Second World War *''The Corsican Ladies'' ( Peter Davies Ltd, 1974) , historical novel based on the extensive autobiographical writings of

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*''The Secret Wife'' (Peter Davies Ltd, 1975) , a historical novel based on the life of

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*''The Ruling Passion'' (Peter Davies Ltd, 1976) , historical novel based on the life of

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, a mistress of

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As Anne Marreco *''The Charmer and the Charmed'' (

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, 1963) , a comedy of manners, in which the wife of a publisher falls in love with one of her husband's authors *''The Boat Boy'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964) , a novel in which the anti-hero brings chaos to rural Ireland *''The Rebel Countess – The Life and Times of

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'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967) , a biography of the Irish revolutionary and politician

References

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