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Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland RRC (née Lady Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine, 20 October 1867 – 20 August 1955) was a British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist, and playwright, often using the pen name Erskine Gower.
As the lady of Stafford House in London, located opposite Buckingham Palace, and of Dunrobin Castle in Scotland, the duchess became one of the leading hostesses of the period and one of the most brilliant women in London society of the day.
Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the Duchess of Sutherland, with wounded soldiers, patients at No.9 Red Cross Hospital (Millicent Sutherland Ambulance) at Calais, July 1917.
Murió en Orriule , cerca de Sauveterre-de-Béarn , en el suroeste de Francia. Fue incinerada en el cementerio de Père Lachaise en París, y sus cenizas fueron enterradas en el cementerio privado de Sutherland en el castillo de Dunrobin . Le sobrevivió su hijo mayor, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, quinto duque de Sutherland .
Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, when Marchioness of Stafford (1867-1955) signed and dated. RCIN 2809352. ©. Description. Photograph of Millicent, Marchioness of Stafford, aged 20: full length portrait, seated on a balcony, turned to her left, looking to left, holding a strand of ivy. Signed and dated by the sitter.
Prominent London society hostess, social reformer, novelist, short story writer, editor, poet. Née Lady Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine. Pseudonym: Erskine Gower. Born at Dysart House, Fife. Married Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, marquess of Stafford (later fourth duke of Sutherland), when she was seventeen.
With the outbreak of war, the Duchess took a Red Cross ambulance unit to France where she set up the No. 9 Red Cross Hospital. In August 1914 she was captured by the Germans but managed to escape. She served with the Red Cross in France for the remainder of the war.
