Anne Grey de Courcy (née Barrett; born December 1927)[1] is an English biographer and journalist, including as women's editor on the London Evening News, as a columnist for the London Evening Standard and as a feature writer for the Daily Mail.
[2] Anne Grey Barrett was born in December 1927, daughter of Major John Lionel Mackenzie Barrett (d. 1940),[3] of The Tallat, Northleach, Gloucestershire, an officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, and Evelyn Kathleen Frances (1898–1987), daughter of Thomas Stewart Porter, of Clogher Park, County Tyrone (he took his mother's family name, Porter, instead of his father's, Ellison-Macartney, as an heir of the Porter family of Belle Isle, County Longford)[4] Her mother was a descendant of Sir Alan Bellingham, 3rd Baronet.
[7] De Courcy worked for the London Evening News as women's editor in the 1970s.
[7] In 1951, she married Michael Charles Cameron Claremont Constantine de Courcy, a journalist and RAF officer, half-brother of John de Courcy, 35th Baron Kingsale.
[6] She then married in 1959 barrister Robert Armitage (1921–1998) of a family of landed gentry Milnsbridge House, Huddersfield; they have three children.