Lady Violet Benson

Lady Violet Catherine Benson (née Manners; 24 April 1888 – 23 December 1971) was an English aristocrat, artist and socialite.

Lady Violet was considered a beauty and was the subject of drawings by George Frederic Watts and John Singer Sargent,[1] the latter exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1916.

Lady Violet's first marriage was one of at least seven unions between children of Souls' families.

[note 2] Her brother John was an art expert who became the 9th Duke of Rutland, and her sister Diana was an actor, author, and socialite.

[7] The couple had two children:[1] Hugo held a commission in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars,[6] and served in the First World War, with the rank of captain.