Name Marjorie Countess | Died August 24, 1989 | |
Marjorie Minna Jenkins Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 24 August 1989), was a British peeress. She was the daughter of Colonel Atherton Edward Jenkins and his wife, Anna Isabella (née Schoenbrunn), the niece of Sir Ernest Cassel. She was a cousin (and life-long close friend) of Edwina Ashley, who married Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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Family
She married John Pratt, Earl of Brecknock, eldest son of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden and Lady Joan Marion Nevill, on 19 October 1920 in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London. They had at least two children:
The Earl and Countess of Brecknock divorced in 1941.
Career
She was Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and Superintendent-in-Charge, St. John's Ambulance Brigade. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967 as well as a Companion of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (C.St.J.)