Family & Early Life
Great grand daughter of Count Emanuele Fenzi and daughter of Count Camillo Fenzi (†1883) Banker and Senator of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and his wife, Evelyne Isabella, daughter of Sir Douglas Strutt Galton and Marianne Nicholson, a first cousin of Florence Nightingale. In 1898 her mother married Leonard Cunliffe, influential London financier, Governor of the Bank of England, President of the Hudson's Bay Company and one of the major investors in the Harrods department stores, upon his death in August 1937 Cunliffe left a considerable bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Leonard Daneham Cunliffe left to the Fitzwilliam a collection whose breadth and splendour enriched almost every department. It ranged from ancient and Renaissance bronzes, paintings, drawings, prints and portrait miniatures to enamels, furniture, textiles, pottery and metal plate, including an exquisite Nautilus shell cup made in London c.1585-1586.
In 1915 she married Richard Ronald John Copeland Esq (1884–1958), Staffordshire, grandson of William Taylor Copeland, Mayor of London, president and chairman of the Spode-Copeland firm of bone china manufacturers in Staffordshire, potters to the royal family since 1806.
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