RARE \"Lady\" Juliet Townsend Hand Signed TLS Dated 1969 COA For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Lady" Juliet Townsend Hand Signed TLS Dated 1969.This item is

certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate

of Authenticity.

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Lady

Juliet Margaret Townsend, DCVO (née Smith;

9 September 1941 – 29 November 2014) was a British writer who served as Lord

Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014, the first

woman to hold this position. Born in 1941 as Lady Juliet Smith, Townsend was

the only daughter of Frederick

Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead, a historian and biographer. Her

mother was the Hon. Sheila Berry, daughter of William

Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose. She grew up in Charlton, Northamptonshire. She married John Townsend in 1970, and had

three daughters. Beginning in 1977, the pair operated a

bookstore.

She attended Somerville College, Oxford,

graduating in 1960 with a degree in English. From 1965 to 2002, Townsend served

as Countess of Snowdon. Margaret had requested that the

appointed person be equipped to help supplement her perceived lack of a formal

education. Townsend

wrote a book recording "every village, church, stately home and

architectural curiosity" within Northamptonshire, publishing it in 1968. Her next literary

project, a children's story set during the Indian Mutiny, was released in 1971. She regularly reviewed

children's books for The Spectator, producing an annual guide on the year's

best.

She held an almost forty year membership in the Northamptonshire branch

of the Campaign to Protect Rural

England, and served as its president from 1988 to 1998.[5] She left the position after her of Northamptonshire, the first woman to hold this role.

She retired in June 2014, citing mobility difficulties  

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