Peggy Coventry Country Life Magazine Portrait November 7 1925

Peggy Coventry Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, November 7 1925. LVIII No. 1505

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of the Hon. Peggy Coventry, whose engagement to Mr Eustace Benyon Hoare, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Alfred E. Hoare, had recently been announced. Miss Coventry was the younger daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Deerhurst, and granddaughter of the Earl and Countess of Coventry.

• Bride-to-be: The Hon. Peggy Virginia Coventry, born October 24, 1897, was the daughter of George William Coventry, Viscount Deerhurst, and Virginia Lea Daniel. She was later granted the rank of an earl’s daughter in 1930.
• Groom-to-be: Major Eustace Benyon Hoare, eldest son of Alfred Ernest Hoare and Edith Gertrude Benyon.
• Family: Miss Coventry was the granddaughter of the Earl and Countess of Coventry.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.