- Aileen Roberts, 2nd Countess Roberts
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Aileen Mary Roberts, 2nd Countess Roberts, DBE (b. 20 September 1870 - d. 9 October 1944) was one of the six children of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, V.C. and Nora Henrietta Bews.
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Titles
- She succeeded to the title of 2nd Viscountess St. Pierre (1901) on 14 November 1914.
- She succeeded to the title of 2nd Countess Roberts, of Kandahar in Afghanistan and Pretoria in the Transvaal Colony and of the City of Waterford (1901) on 14 November 1914.
Affiliations
She was chairman of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops.
Honours
She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918.
Death
She died in 1944, unmarried, aged 74.
Sources
- L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), p. 233.
External links
- Bio at Peerage.com
- Chest of Books website
- New York Times report on the death of Earl Roberts
- Anglo-Afghan War website
- Papers archived at King's College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Peerage of the United Kingdom Preceded by
Frederick RobertsEarl Roberts
1914–1944Succeeded by
Ada LewinCategories:- 1870 births
- 1944 deaths
- British countesses
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Daughters of British earls
- Hereditary suo jure peeresses
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