Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959), was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald. She was a noted gardener and a writer and editor of the works of others.
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Early life
Born as Edith Helen Chaplin in Blankney, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Henry Chaplin (1840–1923), landowner and Conservative politician and later created Viscount Chaplin, and Lady Florence Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1855–1881). After the death of her mother in 1881, Edith was raised largely at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, the estate of her maternal grandfather, the 3rd Duke of Sutherland.
Public works
In 1903 she was one of the founding members and member of the first committee of the Ladies Automobile Club.