Margaretta Finch-Hatton, Countess of Winchilsea

On 8 June 1910, Margaretta was married to Guy Finch-Hatton, Viscount Maidstone by the Bishop of London at St Margaret's, Westminster by the Bishop of London.^[7] The reception was held at the Drexel home in 22 Grosvenor Square attended by 1,500 guests.^[9] Her wedding gifts alone (including a long diamond cable chain from J. P. Morgan) was estimated to have a total value of $243,000 ($ 8.3 million).^[10][11] Her annuity from her father trusts was estimated at $100,000 a year,^[12] she also inherited a lump sump of $1,000,000 ($ 34 million).^[13]

He was the son of Henry Finch-Hatton, 13th Earl of Winchilsea and the former Anne "Nan" Jane Codrington.^[14] His two siblings were Gladys Finch-Hatton (who married Capt. Osmond Williams, a son of Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet) and Denys Finch Hatton, a noted big-game hunter. Together, Guy and Margaretta were the parents of three children:

• Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea (1911–1950), who married Countess Gladys Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék, daughter of Count László Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék, of the Polish noble Széchényi family, and Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi, a member of the American Vanderbilt family.^[15] They divorced in 1945 and he married Agnes Mary Conroy in 1946.^[16]
• Lady Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton (1913–2003), who married Whitney Straight (1912–1979),^[17] a member of the oldWhitney family, in 1935.^[18]
• Lady Henrietta Diana Juanita Finch-Hatton (1917–1977), who married Peter Frank Tiarks (1910–1975).^[19][20]

They lived with Margaretta's parents at 22 Grosvenor Square until her parents separated in 1912, then they moved to 19 Grosvenor Street.^[11]

In 1926 Guy (Toby) and Margaretta purchased their new country home, then named Buckfield House, at Sherfield-on-Loddon in Hampshire. The house was renovated and contained many amenities fit for aristocrat and social elites.^[21]

In 1927, upon the death of his father, her husband became the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and 9th Earl of Nottingham, and Margaretta became known as the Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham.^[22]

Margaretta became a leader of Britain's Women's Land Army which trained 25,000 women to replace British farmers who had been called up for active service. At this time, she also gave Buckfield over to become a nurses home and two years after the war (1947) she sold the house. it became a private school for girls and was renamed North Foreland Lodge.^[23]

Lord Winchilsea died in London on 10 February 1939.^[24] In September 1939, Lady Winchilsea survived the sinking of the S.S. Athenia, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Lady Winchilsea died in London in 1952.^[8]

• Margaretta Armstrong Drexel Finch-Hatton at Find a Grave
• Margaretta Armstrong Finch-Hatton (née Drexel), Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (1885-1952), Heiress; wife of 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham at the National Portrait Gallery, London