Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners

His father's first wife was Emma Pigott, a daughter of Col. Piggott of Doddershall Park, and her mother's first husband was John Sheppard.

[2] Lady Berners was known to be "extremely religious", holding household prayer services for her staff, and "violently low-church," describing herself in Who's Who as "distinctly low".

[1] Together, they were the parents of nine sons and three daughters:[1] In a autobiography, a descendant referred to her appearance as "not unlike Holbein's portrait of Bloody Mary with just a touch of Charley's Aunt.

[2] Through her third son Hugh, she was a grandmother to Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, better known as Lord Berners, the composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete,[4][14] upon whose death her husband's baronetcy became extinct.

[1] Through her daughter Sybil, she was a grandmother to Wing Commander Vashon James Wheeler, a British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served as an infantry officer in both the First World War and the North Russia intervention, and then as a fighter and bomber pilot in the Second World War.