Lady Caroline Faber
Lady Ann Caroline Faber (née Macmillan; 29 August 1923 – 14 September 2016) was an English aristocrat, political campaigner and philanthropist. She was the daughter of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Biography
Caroline Macmillan was born on 1923 at 14 Chester Square, Belgravia, London.[1] She was the daughter of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (created Earl of Stockton in 1984) and his wife, Lady Dorothy Macmillan.[2] She was the second of their four children, and their last surviving child.
Macmillan attended West Heath Girls' School, where she was offered a place to study medicine at the University of Oxford. She declined the offer but served as an ambulance driver in World War II, during which time she met her future husband, insurance executive Julian Faber. He was then an officer in the Welsh Guards.[3]
They were married from 1944 until Faber's death in January 2002.[4] They had five children:
- Anne Christine Adriane Faber (1944 – 28 November 2002). In 1970, she married Michael Roger Lewis Cockerell (b. 1940), British broadcaster and journalist. They had a son and a daughter before divorcing in 1980.[5] In 1995, she married secondly Hon. David Sidney Bernstein, son of British businessman and media executive Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, by whom she had no further issue.[6]
- Michael David Tufnell Faber (born 1945). Married Catherine Suzanne de Braine, and has issue.
- Mark James Julian Faber (1950–1991), a Sussex cricketer.[7] Married Ann Griffith, and had issue.
- David James Christian Faber (born 1961), Conservative politician and a former committee member of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
- James Edwin Charles Faber (born 1964).
The family lived at Birch Grove, the Macmillan home in East Sussex.[citation needed]
Caroline disliked politics but supported the political campaigns of her family members,[3] including her brother Maurice Macmillan and son David Faber, and carried out charity work for the National Blind Children's Society.
She died in Sussex on 14 September 2016 at the age of 93,[8] and her funeral was held at Chelsea Old Church, Cheyne Walk, London later that month.[3]
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Notes
- ^ a b "Court Circular". The Times. 30 August 1923. p. 11.
- ^ "Faber, (Ann) Caroline", Debrett's People of Today (1 November 2000).
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Lady Caroline Faber". The Times. 19 September 2016.
- ^ "Lady Caroline Faber 1923-2016". PeerageNews. 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Cockerell, Michael Roger Lewis, (born 26 Aug. 1940), political documentary maker, author, broadcaster". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11333. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage Genealogical Books Ltd. p. 3752.
- ^ Woodcock, John (12 December 1991). "Sportsman born out of his time". The Times. p. 35. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
- ^ "Faber - Deaths Announcements". Telegraph Announcements. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2025.