![]() ![]() Charles Maynard, making them half-sisters to Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick and Blanche, Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox (mother to Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland). Their mother, Blanche Adeliza Fitzroy, was the widow of the Hon. Her sisters were Sybil Fane, Countess of Westmorland and Lady Angela Forbes. She was born at Dysart House in Fife, the eldest daughter of the Scottish Conservative politician Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn. ![]() ![]() By her two later marriages, she was known as Lady Millicent Fitzgerald and Lady Millicent Hawes, the latter of which was the name she used at the time of her death. Her first husband was Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland. Clair-Erskine, 20 October 1867 – 20 August 1955) was a British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist, and playwright, often using the pen name Erskine Gower. Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland RRC (née Lady Millicent Fanny St. Portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland, 1904, by John Singer Sargent. ![]()
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