Her paternal grandparents were
Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian and the former Louisa Alicia Duff (sister of George William Duff-Assheton-Smith of
Vaynol, and only daughter of Robert George Duff, of Wellington Lodge,
Isle of Wight).[2] Her maternal grandparents were William Atmar Fanning and the former Winifred (née de Bathe) McCalmont (the widow of
Harry McCalmont who was a younger daughter of
Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet).[2]
Career
She moved in the world of the
"Bright Young Things" in the 1920s and produced a series of popular books about
high society.[3] Of Fielding's memoirs, Mercury Presides,
Evelyn Waugh wrote: "Daphne has written her memoirs. Contrary to what one would have expected they are marred by discretion and good taste. The childhood part is admirable. The adult part is rather as though
Lord Montgomery were to write his life and omit to mention that he ever served in the army."[4]
Personal life
On 27 October 1927 she married
Henry Thynne, Viscount Weymouth, who became the 6th
Marquess of Bath in 1946. Neither his nor her parents approved of the marriage,[5] and they were divorced in 1953. From 1946, she was known as the Marchioness of Bath. The couple had five children:[1][5]
Lord Valentine Charles Thynne (1937–1979); married, first, Veronica Jacks and had issue. He married, secondly, Susanne Alder; and, thirdly, Liese Dennis.[2]
After her divorce, her first husband married Virginia Penelope (née Parsons) Tennant (following her divorce from
David Tennant).[6] Daphne remarried to Major
Alexander Wallace Fielding, son of Alexander Lumsden Wallace, of Kirkcaldy, on 11 July 1953. The couple divorced in 1978.[7]
Fielding died on 5 December 1997.
Works
Longleat from 1566 to the present time. Longleat Estate (1949)
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abcdefgPeter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud,
Gloucestershire,
U.K.:
Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 72.