Elinor Glyn - Family

Family

• Margot Elinor Glyn, later Margot, Lady Davson OBE (June 1893 - 10 September 1966 in Rome); she married Sir Edward Rae Davson, 1st Baronet (14 September 1875 – 9 August 1937) in 1921 and had 2 sons
  • Anthony Glyn (13 March 1922 – 20 January 1998), author, previously Sir Geoffrey Davson, 2nd Baronet. He was born Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson, but changed his name to Anthony Geoffrey Ian Simon Glyn by Deed Poll in 1957. In 1937, aged 15, he inherited his father's baronetcy (created 1927) and was known as Sir Geoffrey Davson, 2nd Baronet. In 1955, he published an entertaining if tactful biography of his maternal grandmother. He married 1946 Susan Rhys Williams, daughter of Sir Rhys Rhys Williams Bt (and thus probably his first cousin), and had issue one daughter Victoria (one other daughter Caroline deceased 1981). The baronetcy thus passed to his younger brother:
  • Sir Christopher Michael Edward Davson, 2nd Baronet (1927–2004)
    • Sir George Trenchard Simon Davson, 4th Baronet (b. 1964)
• Juliet Evangeline Glyn, later Dame Juliet Rhys-Williams DBE (1898–1964), a governor of the BBC 1952-1956. she married 24 February 1921 the much older Liberal politician Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams Bt (20 October 1865 – 29 January 1955, died aged 89), MP for Banbury 1918-1922, and had issue, two sons and two daughters. Both husband and wife abandoned the Liberal Party for the Conservative Party.
  • Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams, 2nd Baronet (14 November 1927 – 18 May 1988), MP for Kensington South 1968-1974, then for Kensington 1974-1988, also MEP 1973-1984. By his wife Caroline Susan Foster, he had issue including:
    • Sir (Arthur) Gareth Ludovic Emrys Rhys-Williams, 3rd Baronet (born 1961)
  • a second son
  • Susan Rhys-Williams, who married her cousin Anthony Glyn (above) and became Lady Glyn.
  • Elspeth Rhys-Williams, later Chowdhary-Best.