Violet, Lady Beaumont
1861 - 1949
Carlton Towers,
Yorkshire
She was born in London in April 1861 the daughter of Frederick Isaacson.
He was a successful merchant and later MP for Stepney from 1886 until his
death in 1898. He came from an Anglo-Jewish family that had settled in
Suffolk. Her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of a Frankfurt banker and
was a successful Couturier to the Royal Families of Europe.
Violet lived in London before her marriage in 1888 at the Roman Catholic
Brompton Oratory, to Henry Stapleton, 9th Baron Beaumont who had spent
his fortune creating the famous gothic pile at Carlton Towers, near Selby,
Yorkshire. There were no children of the marriage and he died in 1892. The
title is now held by the Dukes of Norfolk.
She lived with her brother, the Squire, Frederick Wooton Isaacson and is
remembered in Slindon as being a keen rider and sportswoman, and
entertaining political and social figures of the day. She played a prominent
part in the life of the village.
In WW1 when Slindon House became an Officers Convalescent Home in
1917 on completion of its virtual rebuilding she held the post of
Commandant
In WW11 she and her brother went to live at Stavordale Priory in Somerset,
returning to Slindon to live in the Dower House at the end of the war. Her
authoritative and somewhat high handed manner was not always popular
with some estate tenants.
She died in 1949 and is buried in St. Mary’s Churchyard.