P24: Noel Dyer-Edwardes, Countess of Rothes

By Monro Mackie, signed and dated 1923.
Oil on canvas 32 x 26 ins.
Noel Lucy Martha only daughter of Thomas Dyer-Edwardes of Prinknash, Glos. Married 1900, Norman Evelyn, 19th Earl of Rothes. They had 2 sons, Malcolm born 1902 and John born 1909. Her first husband died 1927 and she married 2ndly Col.Claud Macfie DSO, of the Seaforth Highlanders. She is remembered as a survivor of the Titanic disaster 1912 when it was said she behaved with conspicuous gallantry. She died 1956.
Cleaned and restored 1977.
Destroyed in James Bourlet fire 1991