Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Marten OBE (12 September 1929 – 20 January 2010) was an English aristocrat and landowner who made legal history in the Crichel Down affair.
She enlisted in Buckingham Palace Brownies unit, alongside Princess Margaret, and went to school in Lancaster Gate, later attending Cheltenham Ladies' College.
[3] Upon the death of her father, Baron Alington in active service in the RAF in 1940, Mary Anna inherited the Crichel House Estate in Dorset as a Minor.
D.S.C., Royal Navy, (1918–1997), son of Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Arthur Marten, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., were married on 25 November 1949 at Holy Trinity Brompton.
Seven hundred and twenty-five acres (293 ha), part of the Alington family's Crichel Down estate in Dorset[4] had been compulsorily purchased by the Government in 1938 for Royal Air Force bomb training use.
Instead, in 2013 the family sold the Grade I listed Crichel House with 400 acres (160 ha) of parkland to Richard Chilton for a reported £34 million, retaining the remaining estate.
[12] The aim of the fund was and is to encourage and support the study of Ancient Persia and related areas including Central Asia, in the period before the coming of Islam.
[citation needed] She was a collector of jade[15][16][17] and of rare books[18][19] She was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1980 New Year Honours "for political service in Wessex".