Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne
Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, CI (29 May 1896–28 August 1979) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, socialite and murder victim of the Provisional IRA.
[edit] Family life
Lady Brabourne was born The Lady Doreen Geraldine Browne, the third daughter of George Ulick Browne 6th Marquess of Sligo and Agatha Stewart Hodgson, granddaughter of William Forsyth QC. On 22 January 1919, she married Hon. Michael Knatchbull, a son of Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne and his eventual successor.
They had two children:
- The Hon. Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, later 6th Baron Brabourne (1922–1943)
- The Hon. John Ulick Knatchbull, later 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005)
On 15 February 1933, her husband succeeded his father as 5th Baron Brabourne and Doreen became The Lady Brabourne.
[edit] Death
On 27 August 1979, the dowager Lady Brabourne was seriously injured in an explosion which killed Lord Mountbatten (the father of her younger son's wife), their grandson Nicholas, and a local fishing boy Paul Maxwell, on Donegal Bay, County Sligo. A bomb had been planted in Lord Mountbatten's fishing boat by a member of the Provisional IRA. Lady Brabourne died the next day.
[edit] References
- 1896 births
- 1979 deaths
- British baronesses
- Companions of the Order of the Crown of India
- Dames of Grace of the Order of St John
- People killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Deaths by improvised explosive device in the Republic of Ireland
- British terrorism victims
- Daughters of British marquesses
- People murdered in the Republic of Ireland
- British people murdered abroad
- Terrorism deaths in the Republic of Ireland
