Mrs. Wyndham-Quin nee Marjorie Elizabeth Pretyman Country Life Magazine Portrait May 31 1930

Mrs. Wyndham-Quin nee Marjorie Elizabeth Pretyman Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, May 31 1930. LXVII No. 1741

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of The Hon. Mrs. Wyndham-Quin with her three young daughters.

• Identity: Marjorie Elizabeth Wyndham-Quin (née Pretyman), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Ernest Pretyman, a prominent British politician.
• Marriage: She married Lieut.-Commander the Hon. Valentine Wyndham-Quin, R.N., second son of the 5th Earl of Dunraven, on July 21, 1919.
• The Children: The portrait features their three daughters:
  • Ursula (born 1921), later Lady Ursula Eva Pratt.
  • Marjorie (“Mollie”) (born 1922), who later became the Marchioness of Salisbury.
  • Pamela, the youngest daughter, who later became Lady Egremont.
• Social Context: Family portraits such as this were a hallmark of Country Life, celebrating aristocratic family life and the next generation within prominent British households.

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.