Elizabeth Northrup (Powell) Phillips (abt. 1908 - 2011)

Born about 1908 in Maryland, USA

Wife of John Roseberry Monson — married 4 Aug 1931 (to 7 Apr 1958) in England

Descendants

Died 9 Jun 2011 at about age 103 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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Bettie Powell was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Bettie Northrup Powell was the daughter of Lt Col E. Alexander Powell and Jessie Northrup of Connecticut USA. Her father, Alexander Powell (1879-1957), was a noted First World War correspondent and later a successful adventure and travel writer, publishing over 20 books.

As an unmarried girl, Bettie Northrup Powell travelled with her father on a number of his trips in the 20’s and it was on a tour of Southern Europe in 1927 that she sat in Rome for a Carlo Romagnoli portrait.

Meeting her future husband, John Rosebery Monson, 10th Baron Monson, on one of her father’s tours in Canada, She married, firstly, John Roseberry Monson, 10th Baron Monson of Burton, son of Augustus John Debonnaire Monson, 9th Baron Monson of Burton and Romaine Stone, on 4 August 1931. He died in 1958.

She married, secondly, Captain James Arnold Phillips on 12 February 1962. who died in 1983. She lived with her second husband first in Ireland and later in Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where she died at the age of 103. She died on 9 June 2011

Sources

• Crofts Peerage

• The Peerage Entry

• Geni Entry

• Monson on Rootsweb