Personal Life
He did not marry young, and conducted a series of affairs, until on 29 December 1927, he married Estelle, Lady Berney. She was, however, unable to bear children. During his period in Haifa in 1940, he met Eve Nott, a vivacious married woman, and began an affair with her. He married her on 17 May 1949 at Westminster Registry Office.
He had one son, Christopher, and one daughter, Rionagh, he had seven grandchildren and four great grand-children.
Dorman-Smith's youngest brother, Reginald Dorman-Smith, was Governor of Burma at the time of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War.
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