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The Mitford family in 1928. The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family who became particularly well-known in the 1930s for the six Mitford sisters, the daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife, Sydney Bowles. [a] They were celebrated and sometimes scandalous figures.
Known to her family as "Debo", Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford was born in Kensington, London, on 31 March 1920. [a] Her parents were David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, and his wife, Sydney (1880–1963), daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP.
William Mitford was born in London on 10 February 1744, into a rural gentry family. The Mitfords were of Anglo-Saxon origin in Northumberland; the Doomsday Book states that Mitford Castle belonged to Sir John Mitford in 1066, but by 1086 belonged to William Bertram, a Norman knight married to Sibylla, the only daughter and heir of the previous owner. [1]
The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family, with origins in medieval Northumberland where they held Mitford Castle. Sir John Mitford was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1801 and 1802 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1802 and 1806.
In 1688 the estate was sold to Sir Edmund Fettiplace; it stayed in branches of the same family for the next 130 years when it was sold to John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, in 1810. During their 116-year tenure, the Freeman-Mitfords made many alterations to the house including the installation in 1899 of an electric power system powered ...
The Mitfords are a family of the landed gentry, originally from Northumberland, whose history dates back to the 14th century. Redesdale's great-great-grandfather was the historian William Mitford . Redesdale was the second son of (Algernon) Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale , and his wife, Lady Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy ...