Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr

Sylvia Margaret Sackville, Countess De La Warr, DBE (née Harrison; 16 July 1903 – 10 June 1992) was a public servant and a former Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party (1951–54).

[2] She matched her brother for charm, while dedicating her life to the success of her husband, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, whom she married in Liverpool in 1925.

As well as caring for their three daughters, she provided wholehearted practical support throughout her husband’s political career, acting as his unofficial driver, and taking on his constituency business in Liverpool West Derby for the year he was away at the Nuremberg Trials.

Letters between them exchanged during that time, formed the basis of a play by her grandson Tom Blackmore, Making History[3] and later became the foundation of The Humans in the Telling[4] a family project to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials and 70th since the signing of the European Convention on Human Rights which charts her role in David Maxwell Fyfe's journey from Nuremberg to Strasbourg.

[6] She was Vice-President of the Girls' Friendly Society and of the King George's Fund for Sailors, President of the Ladies Guild of the Gordon Smith Institute for Seamen, and later Chair of Governors at Rose Bruford Drama College and Patron of Chiddingstone Castle.