Viva Seton Montgomerie

Viva's aunt, Lady Egida Montgomerie (d. 13 January 1880), married Frederick William Brook Thellusson, 5th Baron Rendlesham.

Her grandmother, Lady Theresa, died in December 1853, and her grandfather, the 13th Earl of Eglinton, married again, her step-grandmother being the Hon.

Viva's aunt Evelyn was married to Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, and she spent much of her childhood at their home, Stratfield Saye House.

In her unpublished memoirs she says that He was a very large man, but he walked with a noiseless tread so no one heard him coming, and when his dominating presence appeared in the room everyone at once stopped talking.

[8]Viva took a mild interest in the Oxford Group led by Dr Frank Buchman, commenting that: The programme seemed to be, for any of the guest who felt inclined, to get up and speechify and pour out a history of their private thoughts and mistakes and experiences of all kinds.

This confessional process apparently afforded them great relief, for I must admit I never met such a delightfully happy society.