Ann Forbes-Sempill, 20th Lady Sempill

Ann Moira Forbes-Sempill, 20th Lady Sempill (19 March 1920 – 6 July 1995) was a Scottish politician, aristocrat, and pilot. As the holder of a hereditary peerage, she was a member of the House of Lords.

Early life Ann Moira Sempill was born on 19 March 1920. Her mother was a horsewoman and pilot, who had an older daughter Diana by her first marriage in Tangiers. Eileen Lady Semphill died of tuberculosis in 1935. Semphill's younger sister June died age 18 on 11 May 1941 during the last day of the London Blitz, working for the W.V.S. Mobile Canteen Service.

Sempill was educated in Austrian, German and English Convents. eventually succeeding and becoming proficient by 1941. She offered the First Fruits at the 1938 Gorsedh Kernow bard initiation ceremony. During World War II, she was a Women's Royal Naval Service petty officer between 1939 and 1942.

Personal life She was married to Eric Holt, a member of the Manchester Regiment from Oxford, from 25 October 1941 until their divorce in 1945; they had one daughter. On 28 October 1948, she later married Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Whitemore Chant , who served in the Gordon Highlanders and the No. 5 Commando. She became a Conservative peer on 19 July 1966.

Forbes-Sempill died on 6 July 1995.

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