Belinda Bellville

Belinda Bellville (29 March 1930 – 5 May 2024) was a British fashion designer, and the co-founder in 1953 (with David Sassoon) of Bellville Sassoon.

She was born on 29 March 1930, the daughter of Anthony Seymour Bellville (1902–1970) and Audrey Dorothy C Kidston (1906–1997), who was the younger sister of the racing driver and aviator Glen Kidston (1899–1931).

[1][2] In 1940, her mother Audrey married Hon.

In 1952, she married David Whately, a partner in a company that made mobiles and abstract sculptures for advertising, and was later a financier.

[2] Their daughter Polly Whately married Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester.