Lady Priscilla Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby Country Life Magazine Portrait December 1 1928

Lady Priscilla Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, December 1 1928. LXIV No. 1663

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Priscilla Willoughby, the younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Ancaster.

• Family: She was the daughter of Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster, and Eloise Lawrence Breese, Countess of Ancaster.
• Siblings: She was one of four children, with an elder sister, Lady Catherine, and two brothers, including Gilbert James, who became the 3rd Earl.
• Marriage: She later became Lady Priscilla Aird after marrying Colonel Sir John Renton Aird, 3rd Baronet, in 1939.
• Children: The couple had four children:
  • Sir (George) John Aird, 4th Baronet (1940–2023)
  • Susan Priscilla Aird (born 1942)
  • Petra Daphne Aird (born 1944)
  • Amanda Alecia Aird (born 1946)
• Lineage: Her descendants remain in the line of succession to the historic Barony of Willoughby de Eresby.

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.