Janet Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton


Janet Lucretia Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton and Winton, DBE was a British Red Cross administrator and the wife of George Arnulph Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton.

Family

She was the daughter of Captain Boyd Alexander Cuninghame of the Royal Navy and his Australian wife, Mary. She married the Honourable George Montgomerie on 13 November 1873. The couple had several children:
George Montgomerie succeeded his elder brother as 15th Earl in 1892 and died in 1919.

World War I

During the First World War, Lady Eglinton was president of the Ayrshire Branch of the British [Red Cross Society] and a member of the Scottish War Executive of the Society. For these services she was appointed Dame [Commander of the Order of the British Empire] in the 1920 civilian war honours.