Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott Country Life Magazine Portrait July 28 1928

Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 28 1928. LXIV No. 1645

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, fourth daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose engagement has recently been announced.

• Family: She was the daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch.
• Engagement: She became engaged to Lord Burghley (David Cecil), eldest son of the Marquess and Marchioness of Exeter.
• Marriage: The couple married on January 10, 1929.
• Lord Burghley: A distinguished athlete who won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and later became the 6th Marquess of Exeter.
• Children: They had four children:
  • Lady Davina Mary Cecil (1931–2018)
  • Hon. John William Edward Cecil (1933–1934)
  • Lady Gillian Moyra Katherine Cecil (1935–2022)
  • Lady Angela Mary Rose Cecil (born 1938)
• Later Life: The marriage ended in divorce in 1946. Lord Burghley later remarried.

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.