About Anne Wignall
Lived 1912 – 1982 (aged 70). Anne Wignall was a British writer, biographer, socialite and aristocrat.
Anne Wignall, known as Baroness Ebury and Lady Ebury (née Acland-Troyte; 12 June 1912 – 23 June 1982), was an English socialite and author known as Alice Acland and Anne Marreco.
Family life Anne Wignall was born Anne Acland-Troyte in the London Borough of Kensington, the daughter of Herbert Walter Acland-Troyte and Marjorie Florence Pym. She had one younger brother, John Acland-Troyte.
She married: On 1 July 1933, the 5th Baron Ebury (1914-1957). They had two sons, Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (born 1934) and the Hon. Robert Victor Grosvenor (1936–1993). They were divorced in 1941. During their marriage they lived at Redheath (now York House School), Croxley Green, Watford, Kingston Bagpuize House, North Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire) and Day's House (now Philberd's Manor ), East Hanney, Berkshire. On 23 December 1941, Henry Peregrine Rennie Hoare (1901–1981). They were divorced in 1947. On 13 November 1947, Lt.-Col. Frederick Wignall (1906–1956). They had one daughter, Caroline Louisa Wignall (born 1948). She was widowed in 1956. On 25 September 1961, Anthony Marreco (1915–2006), a junior counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, and later a founding director of Amnesty International.
She changed her name back to Wignall by deed poll in 1969 and died in 1982 in Tiverton, Devon. She is buried in the churchyard at All Saints Church, Huntsham close to her father's ancestral seat, Huntsham Court.
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British writer and socialite (1912-1982)
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Anne Wignall was born on 12 June 1912 in Kensington.
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Anne Wignall died on 23 June 1982 in Tiverton.
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Anne Wignall was a writer, biographer, socialite and aristocrat.
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Anne Wignall was British.
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