Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss (born 18 August 1922) is a Scottish peeress.
The eldest of the three daughters of Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville and Katherine Beatrice MacKenzie Jackman, she was educated at Ravenscroft School Eastbourne.[1] She is the senior heir-general to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, the only son of Lady Catherine Grey.[2] Had the marriage of Catherine Grey from which Edward Seymour was born ever been deemed legitimate for dynastic purposes, then Edward would have supplanted his second cousin once removed —Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven— as senior legitimate heir-general of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Lady Kinloss would be Mary's genealogical representative today.
She succeeded to the title Lady Kinloss on the death in 1944 of her grandmother, Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss. She married Greville Stewart Parker Freeman (later Freeman-Grenville) in 1950; they had one son and two daughters:
She sat as an Independent Crossbencher peer in the House of Lords from the implementation of the Peerage Act 1963, which allowed peeresses in their own right to sit in the House, until the implementation of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 hereditary peers.[4] She served on the House of Lords Committee on European Communities from 1990 to 1992.[5] She was unsuccessful in her bid to be elected as one of the retained 92 hereditary peers, coming 38th in a field of 79 candidates for 28 seats reserved for Crossbenchers.[6]
Ms Beatrice Freeman-Grenville, Hansard 1803–2005, retrieved 6 December 2011
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| Preceded by Mary Morgan-Grenville |
Lady Kinloss 1944–present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |