Anne Liddell-Grainger

Anne Liddell-Grainger
Born	Anne Mary Sibylla Abel Smith (1932-07-28) 28 July 1932 Kensington Palace, London
Spouse(s)	David Liddell-Grainger (m. 1957; div. 1981)
Children	Ian Liddell-Grainger Charles Liddell-Grainger Simon Liddell-Grainger Alice Liddell-Grainger Malcolm Liddell-Grainger
Parent(s)	Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith Lady May Abel Smith

Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (née Abel Smith; born 28 July 1932) is the mother of British politician Ian Liddell-Grainger. Her maternal grandparents were Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.

She was born in Kensington Palace, the daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith and Lady May Abel Smith (formerly Princess May of Teck). She married David Liddell-Grainger, a Scottish politician, on 14 December 1957 and they were divorced in 1981.

They had five children:

• Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959)
• Charles Montagu Liddell-Grainger (born 23 July 1960)
• Simon Rupert Liddell-Grainger (born 28 December 1962)
• Alice Mary Liddell-Grainger (born 3 March 1965)
• Malcolm Henry Liddell-Grainger (born 14 December 1967)

Anne later became a devout Christian, and served as a missionary in Africa. She settled in Kennington, south London, where she is engaged in Christian charity work.

Mrs Liddell-Grainger is in the line of succession to the British Throne as a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Ancestry

Family of Anne Liddell-Grainger

16. Henry Smith               8. Henry Abel Smith                       17. Lucy Leslie-Melville               4. Francis Abel Smith                             18. Francis Pym               9. Elizabeth Mary Pym                       19. Jane Elizabeth Leslie-Melville               2. Henry Abel Smith                                   20. Henry John Hyde Seymour               10. Henry Seymour                       21. Charlotte Whitcombe               5. Madeline St. Maur Seymour                             22. Robert Tritton               11. Susannah Biscoe Tritton                       1. Anne Liddell-Grainger                                         24. Duke Alexander of Württemberg               12. Francis, Duke of Teck                       25. Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde               6. Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone                             26. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge               13. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge                       27. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel               3. Lady May Cambridge                                   28. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha               14. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany                       29. Victoria of the United Kingdom               7. Princess Alice of Albany                             30. George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont               15. Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont                       31. Princess Helena of Nassau

References

• Burke's Peerage
• Who's Who 2009

Lines of succession
Preceded by Matilda Murray	Line of succession to the British throne descended from Leopold, son of Victoria	Succeeded by Ian Liddell-Grainger