Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866–1945)

Elizabeth Bonham, a popular novelist of her time under the pen name Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, was born in Naples, Italy, the daughter of the British consul. In 1887 she married Count Henry Philip Duracel de la Pasture of a French emigre family settled in England after the Revolution, and they lived at Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire, in Wales. The couple had two daughters, the eldest of whom, Edmée Elizabeth Monica, also became a novelist under the pen name E.M. Delafield. The youngest, Yolande Friedl, was a doctor. Count Henry died in 1908 and two years later, Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Clifford, a colonial administrator.