Miss Marcella Duggan Country Life Magazine Portrait March 19 1927

Miss Marcella Duggan Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, March 19 1927. LXI No. 1574

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Marcella Duggan, daughter of the Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston by her first husband, the late Alfred Duggan of Buenos Aires.

• Background: Grace Lucille Marcella Duggan (1907–1995) was a well-known figure in 1920s high society.
• The “Escape”: In 1927, she became the subject of a widely reported social scandal when she reportedly escaped from her mother’s supervision to continue her marriage plans.
• Marriage: Despite initial opposition, she married Edward Denis Rice on May 18, 1927, at St Margaret’s, Westminster.
• Family: She was the daughter of Alfred Hubert Duggan, a wealthy businessman, and Grace Elvina Hinds. Her mother later married George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.
• Siblings: Her brothers included Alfred Duggan, a noted historical novelist, and Hubert Duggan, a Member of Parliament.
• Children: She and Edward Rice had two children:
  • Henry John Bernard Rice (1928–2010)
  • Caroline Helen Rice (1931–2016), later Countess of Plymouth
• Later Life: The marriage ended in divorce in 1961.

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.