Sonia Melchett

Sonia Elizabeth Sinclair, JP, known as Sonia Melchett, is an English socialite and author. Formerly married to Julian Mond, Baron Melchett, she married the writer Andrew Sinclair after her husband's death.

Early life

Sonia Melchett was born in British India on 6 September 1928, the eldest daughter of Lt-Col Roland Harris Graham and Kathleen Graham, of The Lodge, Bridge, Kent. Her father, of a County Fermanagh family, was educated at Cambridge University and Trinity College, Dublin, and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War. Sonia Melchett was educated at the Royal School, Bath. Her younger sister Daphne married Major Anthony Henry Ivor Kinsman and became an actress, broadcaster and writer. She was the presenter of the BBC news programme Look North and wrote the book Pawn takes Castle.

Personal life

Sonia Graham married the Honourable Julian Edward Alfred Mond, younger son of Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett and Amy Gwen Mond Baroness Melchett on 26 April 1947, and became Lady Melchett on the death of her father-in-law on 22 January 1949.

Publications

From the Ganges to The Thames: A Memoir, 2016. Passionate Quests Five Modern Women Travellers, Faber and Faber, 1992. Someone is missing : a memoir, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987 ISons and Mothers, Virago Press, 1996 by Victoria Glendinning, Matthew Glendinning ;