Mark Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham

Mark Everard Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham (29 May 1903 – 19 July 1943) was an English peer, baronet, motor racing driver, member of the House of Lords, and MI5 officer.

[4] In 1926, he bought a car built for the late Louis Zborowski capable of 90 miles per hour, and was reserve driver for his friend Henry Segrave in the first ever British Grand Prix.

[8] In 1932, Cottenham wrote a series of articles for The Daily Express in which he declared his belief in spiritualism and stated that he was himself a medium.

[11][12] However, in 1941, after Churchill had come to power, and after the Germans had launched Operation Barbarossa, he resigned from MI5[13] and went to live in the United States, as he no longer supported the war with Germany.

[14] Cottenham died on 19 July 1943, at 9, Mandeville Place, Westminster, a fashionable nursing home, while living at the Travellers Club.

[16] They had two daughters:[2][3] In 1939, Cottenham and his wife were divorced, and on 29 July of that year she married Charles Courtenay, 17th Earl of Devon.