Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland

Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland

Arms of the Countess of Sutherland
Born 30 March 1921
Title Countess of Sutherland
Tenure 1 February 1963 – present
Other titles Lady Strathnaver
Residence Dunrobin Castle
Predecessor The 5th Duke of Sutherland
Heir apparent Alastair Sutherland,
Lord Strathnaver
Spouse(s) Charles Jansen
Parents Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower and Elizabeth Demarest

Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (born 30 March 1921) is a British peer.[1]

Early life

She was born Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the only child of Major Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921), a son of the 4th Duke of Sutherland, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Demarest (1892–1931), the former wife of John G. A. Leishman, Jr. and a daughter of Warren Gardner Demarest of New York City.

Her father died while taking part in a big game expedition in Rhodesia, contracting malaria and dying there on 28 April 1921, aged 31. Her mother then married, in 1931, Baron George Osten Driesen, but died three months later. Elizabeth then became a ward of her uncle the 5th Duke of Sutherland. Upon his death, she succeeded in her own right as 24th Countess of Sutherland and 24th Lady Strathnaver,[2] whilst the Dukedom and the other titles that could pass in the male line only were inherited by the 5th Earl of Ellesmere. She also inherited most of her uncle's large land-holdings, including Dunrobin Castle. She subsequently changed her surname to Sutherland in order to be recognised as Chief of Clan Sutherland.

Marriage

She married Charles Noel Janson (1917 - 2006) on 5 January 1946 and had four children:[3]

Ancestry

Arms

Arms of Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland
Coronet
A Coronet of an Earl
Crest
A Cat-a-Mountain sejant rampant proper
Escutcheon
Gules three Mullets Or (as the ancient arms of Sutherland of that Ilk) on a Bordure of the second a Double Tressure flory counterflory of the first (as an Honourable Augmentation)
Supporters
On the dexter side a Savage Man wreathed about the head and loins with Laurel proper, holding in his exterior hand a Club Gules resting upon his shoulder, and on the sinister side another like Savage sustaining in his sinister hand and against his shoulder, upon a Staff ensigned by the Coronet of an Earl a Bannerette Gules, charged of three Mullets Or
Motto
Sans Peur (Without fear)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.william1.co.uk/w23.html
  2. ↑ Clan Sutherland http://www.clansutherland.org/FrChief.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/sutherland.html

External links

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower		 Countess of Sutherland
1963–present 		Incumbent