Belinda Bellville

Belinda Bellville was a British fashion designer, and the co-founder in 1953 of Bellville Sassoon.

Early life

She was born on 29 March 1930, the daughter of Anthony Seymour Bellville and Audrey Dorothy C Kidston, who was the younger sister of the racing driver and aviator Glen Kidston. In 1940, her mother Audrey married Hon. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor.

Personal life

In 1952, she married David Whately, a partner in a company that made mobiles and abstract sculptures for advertising, and was later a financier. He died in 2008. They had three daughters together.
Their daughter Polly Whately married Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester.
She died on 5 May 2024, aged 94.