Magdalen Mary Charlotte Scott, Countess of Eldon OBE (née Fraser; 1 August 1913 – 27 September 1969), better known as Magdalen Eldon, was a British children's author and illustrator.
[1] They had two sons, the elder of whom, John, succeeded in due course to the earldom, and two adopted daughters.
[2] According to Hugo Vickers: Magdalen Eldon had a host of admirers: 'Bobbety Salisbury and King George VI adored her'.
Duncan Grant wanted to paint her, the producer Max Reinhardt wanted her to take over from Lady Diana Cooper in The Miracle, but … she was 'diffident and genuinely modest about her appearance'… Lady Eldon had wished to be a nun when young.
[3]Eldon's most celebrated works were probably her three children's books, which she herself illustrated, about Bumble, a half-Chinese and half-Scottish Pekingese living in Devon.