Mr and Lady Anne Home Drummond

Category

Library Item

Item no

17535

Title

Mr and Lady Anne Home Drummond

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1858

Size

13.4 x 10.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Photograph has been coloured

Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl VA (17 June 1814 – 22 May 1897), born Anne Home-Drummond and known as The Lady Glenlyon between 1839 and 1846, as The Duchess of Atholl between 1846 and 1864 and as The Dowager Duchess of Atholl between 1864 and 1897, was a Scottish courtier and close friend of Queen Victoria.

She was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of Henry Home-Drummond, of Blair Drummond, by Christian, daughter of Charles Moray. On 29 October 1839 she married George Murray, 2nd Baron Glenlyon, at Blair Drummond, thereby becoming Lady Glenlyon. In 1846 he succeeded his uncle as sixth Duke of Atholl, and Anne became Duchess of Atholl.

She served as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria in Lord Derby's short-lived government of 1852. She subsequently served the queen as a Lady of the Bedchamber for almost forty years and was one of Victoria's closest friends.

The Duke of Atholl died in 1864, and Anne became the Dowager Duchess of Atholl.

The Duchess of Atholl died at Dunkeld, Perthshire, in May 1897, aged 82, and was buried at Blair Atholl.

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