Lucy Elizabeth Drummond Davies was a daughter of Francis Henry Davies, a Court of Chancery registrar who died aged 72 at Koblenz on 22 October 1863, and his wife, the author Lady Lucy Clementina Drummond de Melfort (1795–1879), a sister of George Drummond, 5th Earl of Perth (1807–1902), whose claim was admitted in 1848 and who was restored to the peerage in 1853.
[2] However, Lieutenant-Colonel Villiers died of fever whilst in command of the 74th Highlanders at Ramdroog,[3] India, on 10 May 1862, aged 38.
On 10 August 1865 she married John Sale Barker, a barrister-at-law[4] of Cadogan Place,[5] who in 1879 was living at 22 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington.
Lucy Sale-Barker died 4 May 1892 at her home, Inglenook, 93 Lennard Road, Penge.
[1] By first husband Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes, married for the second time on 22 December 1927, to Colonel Claud Macfie, DSO; they had no children.