Miss Rosemary Ryder Country Life Magazine Portrait August 25 1928

Miss Rosemary Ryder Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, August 25 1928. LXIV No. 1649

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Rosemary Ryder, only daughter of the Hon. Mrs. R. Dudley Ryder and the late Major the Hon. Robert Dudley Ryder.

• Identity: Rosemary Ryder was a notable society debutante, presented at Court during the 1928 London season.
• Family: She was the daughter of Major the Hon. Robert Nathaniel Dudley Ryder (1882–1917), an officer killed in World War I, and Dorothy Beryl Collins Angas.
• Heritage: She was the granddaughter of the 4th Earl of Harrowby, from a prominent aristocratic family.
• Sibling: She had a twin brother, Geoffrey Dudley Ryder.
• Marriage: She married Clive Loehnis (later Sir Clive Loehnis) on April 17, 1929.
• Children: The couple had three children:
  • Serena Jane Loehnis (born 1932)
  • Anthony David Loehnis (born March 12, 1936)
  • A second son (born 1940)

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.