Mary Katharine Mumford, 15th Lady Herries of TerreglesDCVO (néeFitzalan-Howard; 14 August 1940 – 7 April 2017) was a Scottish peeress and the second of the four daughters of the 16th Duke of Norfolk (and 13th Lord Herries of Terregles) and The Hon. Lavinia Strutt.
Lady Herries lived in a cottage in Arundel and on the Caerlaverock estate in Dumfries and Galloway.[1] She and her sister operated a tearoom on the estate.[7]
In 1986, in the chapel of Arundel Castle, she married Group Captain Anthony Mumford CVOOBE (died 2006).[1] From her marriage until she inherited her sister's peerage in 2014 she was known as Lady Mary Mumford. She was widowed in 2006. In 2014, on the death of her elder sister, she inherited the ancient Scottish peerage, the Lordship of Herries of Terregles, which her father had inherited from his mother, Gwendolen, Duchess of Norfolk (and 12th Lady Herries of Terregles).
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