Yvonne, Lady Cochrane

Yvonne, Lady Cochrane (née Sursock; 18 May 1922 – 31 August 2020) was a Lebanese philanthropist, advocate of the arts and member of the Sursock family. She died on 31 August 2020, from injuries sustained in the Beirut explosion on 4 August 2020.

Personal life Yvonne Sursock was born on 18 May 1922, in Naples, Italy. She was the only daughter of Alfred Sursock, a Lebanese aristocrat, and Maria Theresa Serra di Cassano, the daughter of Francesco Serra, 7th Duke of Cassano. Her father owned thousands of tracts of land which included much of Jezreel Valley, the Western Galilee, Haifa, and Jaffa. When her husband's father died, the couple inherited the Woodbrook estate outside of Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, and moved into the home in 1952. They had three sons and a daughter. The couple separated in the 1960s, and Desmond moved to Cyprus where he died in 1979.