Edith Villiers
1841–1936 (age 95)
Biography
Edith Villiers (1841–1936) was a member of the English gentry with connections to Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. She lived through nearly a century of significant social and cultural change in Victorian and Edwardian England, witnessing the transformation of British society across multiple generations.
Her long life spanned from the height of the Victorian era through the interwar period, allowing her to observe and experience the evolution of English country life and aristocratic traditions during a time of considerable national development.