Mrs Austen Chamberlain nee Ivy Dundas Country Life Magazine Portrait May 16 1925

Mrs Austen Chamberlain nee Ivy Dundas Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 16 1925. LVII No. 1480

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Mrs Austen Chamberlain with her children, Joseph Chamberlain, Beatrice Diana Dundas Chamberlain, and Lawrence Endicott Dundas Chamberlain. Formerly Miss Ivy Dundas, and a daughter of Colonel Henry Lawrence Dundas, she married the future Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1906.

Ivy Muriel Dundas (1878–1941) became Lady Chamberlain after marrying the prominent British statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1906.

• Family Background: She was the daughter of Colonel Henry Lawrence Dundas and Ida Constance De Lisle Burrowes.
• Marriage: She married Austen Chamberlain on July 21, 1906. At the time, he was a rising politician and later served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1924–1929) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.
• Joseph Chamberlain (1907–1979): He married Gina MacDonald in 1945 in Alexandria, Egypt.
• Beatrice Diana Dundas Chamberlain (1912–1999): She married Colonel Arthur Terence Maxwell on February 21, 1935, at St Stephen’s Chapel in Westminster, London, and was thereafter known as Beatrice Diana Maxwell.
• Lawrence Endicott Dundas Chamberlain (1917–2003): He married Anne Zacyntha Eastwood in 1941 at Hursley, Winchester. They had several children, including a son named Oliver John Harben Chamberlain.

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.