The Mitfords were an aristocraticBritish family noted for their accomplishments in writing and their notorious lives, particularly of the daughters of the family, known as the Mitford sisters.
They were the children of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford (1878 - 1958), the second Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney Bowles. The family home was Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire.
The eldest of the seven children of David Mitford and Sydney Bowles, Nancy was born in London in 1904.
Sister number two, Pamela (1907-1994), was the least rebellious of the older girls.
She so enjoyed herself and amused her sisters that later, when she greeted everyone with the Nazi salute, they regarded it for a time as another one of her pranks.
Nancy Mitford was born November 28, 1904 in London, England, part of an aristocratic family.
She is one of the noted Mitfordsisters, was an essayist in, and editor of, Noblesse Oblige[?] (1956), in which she helped to originate the famous 'U', or upper-class, and 'non-U' classification of linguistic usage and behavior.
Her remains were brought home to England and interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard, Oxfordshire, England with her youngest sister, Unity Mitford (1914-1948).
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