Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg

Who was Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg?

Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ was a British peeress.

Born as Barbara Jekyll, she was a daughter of Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll, and his wife, Dame Agnes Graham Jekyll, DBE. On 20 July 1911, she married Hon. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren, the-then Liberal MP for Spalding and the second son of the 1st Baron Aberconway.

Francis and Barbara McLaren had two sons:

Major Martin John McLaren

Guy Lewis Ian McLaren

Francis McLaren was killed in action in 1917. On 14 June 1922, she remarried, to Bernard Cyril Freyberg at St. Martha-on-the-Hill, near Guildford, Surrey. They had one son:

Paul Richard Freyberg, 2nd Baron Freyberg