Her father was the son of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, and his wife Mary Fanny Blunt, the daughter of Rev.

[3] She was friends, among others, with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Edward Burne-Jones,[2] and was part of the poetic and literary circle known as The Souls.

[5] In April 1927, as Viscountess Grey, she became the first President of the newly formed North East Coast branch of the Electrical Association for Women in Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Edward was the eldest surviving son of eleven children born to Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, and succeeded to his father's baronetcy upon the later's death in 1906.

[13] Her second husband died on 7 September 1933 and the viscountcy became extinct on his death, though he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin, Sir George Grey.