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The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family whose principal line had its seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland.
A junior line, with seats at Newton Park, Northumberland, and Exbury House, Hampshire, descends via the historian William Mitford (1744–1827) and were twice elevated to the British peerage, in 1802 and 1902, under the title Baron Redesdale.[1]
The family became particularly well-known in the 1930s for the six Mitford sisters, direct descendants of William Mitford, the daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife, Sydney Bowles.[a] They were celebrated and sometimes scandalous figures.
In 2007, The Times journalist Ben Macintyre described them as "Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover; Nancy the Novelist; Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur".[2]
- ^ Burke's Peerage, 107th edn. (London 2003).
- ^ "Those utterly maddening Mitford girls", Ben Macintyre, The Times, London, 12 October 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
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