Lady Millicent Taylour Country Life Magazine Portrait February 8 1930

Lady Millicent Taylour Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, February 8 1930. LXVII No. 1725

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Millicent Taylour, published to announce her recent engagement.

• The Subject: Lady Millicent Taylour, the only daughter of the 4th Marquess and Marchioness of Headfort.
• Family Background: Her father was Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort, and her mother Rosie Boote, a celebrated former Gaiety Theatre actress whose marriage into the aristocracy was widely noted at the time.
• The Occasion: The portrait marks her engagement to Mr. Henry Frederick Tiarks, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Tiarks, a prominent banking family.
• Marriage: The couple married later that year on October 2, 1930, after which she became known as Lady Millicent Tiarks.
• Family Details: Although the only daughter, she had two brothers, including Terence Taylour, who later became the 5th Marquess of Headfort, and Lord William Desmond Taylour, a noted archaeologist.
• Society Context: As a prominent debutante of the period, her engagement was a notable event within the London social season.

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.