Lady Anne Tree

She was born Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice Cavendish on 6 November 1927 at 2 Upper Belgrave Street, London, the fourth child of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895–1950), and his wife, Lady Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (1895–1988), granddaughter of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

[1][2] One of the prisoners she regularly visited was the murderer Myra Hindley, whom she introduced to Lord Longford; he later argued for her release.

After the death of his uncle, Peter Beatty, on 26 October 1949, Tree inherited Mereworth Castle, Kent, where they lived subsequently.

[7] In 1968 the Trees bought Shute House, near Shaftesbury in Dorset, where they commissioned Geoffrey Jellicoe to design a notable garden.

[8] On 9 August 2010, she died of lung cancer at her home, Lower Lane House in Compton Abbas, Dorset.