Topic summary
Anne de Vere Cole
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Anne Chamberlain.
Biography
Anne de Vere Cole was born on 1 June 1882 to Major William Utting Cole, of West Woodhay House, Berkshire. Her mother, Mary de Vere, was Irish, and traced her descent to the 15th Earl of Oxford; she inherited Issercleran, Craughwell, County Galway, in 1888. Her brother was the noted prankster Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), who inherited the family seat some time after 1889; it was later owned by John Huston and then Merv Griffin and is now known as St. Cleran's House. From childhood Anne loved to travel, going abroad each year, later going to Canada and East Africa as a married woman. She married Neville Chamberlain in 1911, and remained his wife until his death in November 1940. They had two children, Dorothy and Frank.