Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold

Hermione Cobbold, Lady Cobbold (August 31, 1905 – October 27,2004) known as Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton until 1930 was the British matriarch of Knebworth House and wife of Lord Cobbold.

Born Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton in 1905 she was the daughter of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton and Pamela Chichele-Plowden, Winston Churchill's first great love. During her father's tenure as acting Viceroy of India she became Vicereine, her mother who would have held that role, being in England. It was while she was in India that she met and married (1930) her husband, the then, Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold.

Lady Cobbold was an energetic supporter of many charities and local organizations such as the YMCA. She died in Hertfordshire at 99 years old.

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* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1340140,00.html Obituary for Hermione Lady Cobbold]