W.---	2nd Officer	Hon. Frances Patricia Tollemache
	b. 24 Nov 1908, Tarporley Cheshire	31 Jan to 7 Mar 1941

Father: Bentley Lyonel John, 3rd Baron Tollemache, a British Army officer, peer, and writer on croquet and bridge, Mother: Wynford Rose [Kemball], The Lady Tollemache (d. 1926)

Her elder sister was the Hon. Dorothy Cecily Tollemache (Verney, d. 1994)

"Lord Tollemache succeeded his grandfather in 1904, and owns about 35,800 acres. His two seats are Peckforton Castle, Tarporley, and Helmingham Hill, Stowmarket. During the war he served as a Lieut-Commander with the R.N.V.R. and was wounded. He has been a captain in the Cheshire Regiment and in the R.G.A."

The 1911 Census shows them living in Peckforton, Cheshire, with a cook, a lady's maid, 2 nurses, 3 housemaids, a kitchen maid, a scullery maid, a butler, a valet, a footman and a hall porter:

  Now a hotel ...

 Miss Dorothy and Miss Frances were debutantes in 1927, "presented by Susan Duchess of Somerset".

  The Three Graces

"Miss Valerie Domville, the Hon. Frances Tollemache and Miss Rosabelle Perowne in the dresses they wore at the Calico Ball at Claridge's Hotel"  The Bystander, 20 Dec 1933

Address in 1936: The Mill House, Duddington, nr Stamford, Lincs

"Daughter Of Peer In Air Crash

The Hon. Frances Tollemache, daughter of the Baron Tollemache, escaped unhurt when the 'plane in which she was flying irom London to the Cape was wrecked while attempting to land at Mbeya, Tanganyika. The pilot [Vernon Motion] was also uninjured.

The Hon. Frances Tollemache gained an "A" pilot's licence after only three weeks' instruction, and in April last left Heston for a 30,000-mile air tour of Egypt, Palestine and South Africa. With her then was Mr. Vernon Motion as co-pilot. Miss Tollemache intended to visit her sister in Johannesburg and Mr. Motion intended to sell British machinery in Africa" - Daily Record - 30 Jun 1936

  "Miss Tollemache in the cockpit of the machine" - Daily Mirror

[The aircraft was a Percival P.10 Vega Gull, G-AEAS 'The Export Raider', first registered in January 1936. It was badly damaged in the crash at Mbeya on the 28 June and written off in December 1936. ]

Address in 1939: The Mill House, Barleythorpe Dairy Farm, Doddington, nr Oakham, Rutland

  [Resigned]

m. 10 Feb 1949 at the Church of All Saints, Bombay, Charles Edward Lloyd-Worth, from Hastings, Sussex, "who has an appointment in India", (divorced 1965)

d. Nov 1992 - Cheltenham, Glos.