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          Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon () ; Water-based inks.

          Lady Helen was..

          Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon

          British noblewoman, socialite and diarist

          Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (néeDuncombe; 6 March 1866[1][2] – 16 May 1954) was a British noblewoman, socialite and diarist.

          Early life

          Lady Helen was born at 20 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London,[1] the daughter of William Duncombe and Mabel Violet Graham. The family seat was at Duncombe Park in Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England.

          Lady Helen was born in at her family's London home to a life of wealth and privilege as the second daughter of William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham.

        1. Helen Venetia Duncombe Vincent, Vicountess D'Abernon ().
        2. Lady Helen was.
        3. Lady Helen Vincent (nee d'Abernon).
        4. Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (née Duncombe) ( – 16 May ) was a British noblewoman, socialite and diarist.

          5. Her father was elevated to the peerage as Baron Feversham in 1867 and again as Earl of Feversham in 1868. She and her sister, Hermione, Duchess of Leinster, were renowned as leading beauties in their circle.[3]

          Marriage

          Helen married Sir Edgar Vincent, then a governor of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Constantinople on 24 September 1890.

          In 1899 he was elected a Member of Parliament for Exeter. Lady Helen, in that period, was "the most celebrated hostess of her age and was 'by reason of her outstanding