{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Lady Constance Gaskell | honorific_suffix = DCVO DStJ | image = Lady Constance Knox 1899.jpg | caption = ''Photograph of Lady Constance, 1899'' | birth_name = Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Knox | birth_date = {{birthdate|1885|04|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{dda|1964|04|29|1885|04|21|df=yes}} | death_place = | parents = Constance Caulfeild<br>Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly | spouse = {{marriage|Evelyn Milnes Gaskell<br>|7 November 1905||reason=}} | children = | relations = }} '''Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Milnes Gaskell''', DCVO DStJ (née '''Knox'''; 21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.<ref name="caulfeild">{{cite web|title=Constance Harriet Stuart Knox|url=http://www.caulfeild.co.uk/individual.php?pid=I51&ged=Caulfeild|website=webtrees|accessdate=22 September 2016}}</ref>
==Early life== Lady Constance was the second, but eldest surviving, daughter of Constance Caulfeild and Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, who was later Governor of New Zealand from 1897 to 1904.<ref name="1910Portrait">{{cite journal |title=Our Portrait Illustration |journal=Country Life |date=1910 |page=314 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Country_Life/KloiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA314 |access-date=13 December 2023 |publisher=Country Life, Limited |language=en}}</ref>
==Courtier== Lady Gaskell was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937 to 1953 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953 to 1960.<ref name="caulfeild"/> She was appointed Dame of Justice, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.<ref name="Mosley2003">Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3273.</ref>
==Personal life== On 7 November 1905, she married Maj. Evelyn Milnes Gaskell (d. 1931), a son of Rt. Hon. Charles Milnes Gaskell, MP for Morley,<ref name=npg/> and the former Lady Catherine Henrietta Wallop (a daughter of the 5th Earl of Portsmouth), an author.<ref name=Dickins>{{cite book|last=Dickins|first=Gordon|title=An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire|year=1987|publisher=Shropshire Libraries|pages=33–34, 44, 104|isbn=0-903802-37-6}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Charles Thomas Milnes Gaskell (d. 1943), a Lt. in the Coldstream Guards, he married Lady Ethel Patricia Hare, daughter of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel and Hon. Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone (a daughter of the 2nd Baron Derwent, in 1936.<ref name="Mosley2003"/> * Mary Juliana Milnes Gaskell (1906–1999),<ref name="Mosley2003"/> who married Lewis Motley, in 1934.<ref name="Penn1982">{{cite book |last1=Magazine |first1=Pennsylvania Genealogical |title=Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families: From The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine |date=1982 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-8063-0974-3 |page=646 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAQjAQAAIAAJ |access-date=14 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
Her son died in a flying accident on 5 November 1943. Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell died in 1964, eight days after her 79th birthday.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
===Legacy=== Two portraits of Lady Constance are part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.<ref name=npg>[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp129329/lady-constance-milnes-gaskell ''National Portrait Gallery'', "Lady Constance Gaskell", retrieved 3 December 2020]</ref>
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==External links== *[https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22410585 Gaskell, Constance Harriet Stuart (Lady), 1885-1964] at the National Library, Wellington
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