Miss Rosemary Worthington-Evans Country Life Magazine Portrait June 9 1928

Miss Rosemary Worthington-Evans Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, June 9 1928. LXIII No. 1638

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Rosemary Worthington-Evans, the only daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Laming and Lady Worthington-Evans.

• Identity: Rosemary Worthington-Evans, a society figure of the late 1920s.
• Family: She was the daughter of Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet, a prominent Conservative politician who served as Secretary of State for War, and Lady Gertrude Annie Hale.
• Siblings: She had one brother, Sir William Shirley Worthington Worthington-Evans, who later became a judge.
• Marriage: She married Major Thomas G. C. Coggin in 1932, an officer in the British Army (11th Hussars).
• Social Context: As a frontispiece subject, she represented the daughters of prominent political and aristocratic families regularly featured in Country Life.
• Later Life: Following her marriage, she appears to have lived a largely private life.

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.