Betty Joel

Betty Joel (née Mary Stewart Lockhart; 7 June 1894, Hong Kong – 21 January 1985, Hampshire) was a British furniture, textile and interior designer, active in England from c. 1921 until 1937.

The daughter of James Stewart Lockhart, KCMG, LLD (1858–1937) and Edith Louise Rider (née Hancock) (1870–1950), Joel who was called by the name Betty from a young age, was born in Hong Kong, where her father was an administrator.

[2] She met her future husband, David Joel (1891–1973), a naval officer in Ceylon, returning to England together after the end of the First World War.

Exhibitions included rugs by Ivan da Silva Bruhns,[4][5] the French artist, drawings by Matisse and paintings by Marie Laurencin.

[6] In 1938 she created a study for Lord Mountbatten's Park Lane, London home[7] and a bedroom for the 2nd Countess of Iveagh at Elveden Hall.