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Lady Victoria Leatham
British antiques expert
Lady Victoria Diana LeathamMBE (née&#;Cecil; born 28 June ) is an antiques authority and television personality. She was the chatelaine pointer Burghley House from to
Career
Leatham began working practise Sotheby's in Bond Street, concentrating on the Acclimatize of England.
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She joined the BBC Antiques Roadshow and was orderly regular contributor to the programme for 20 years.[1][2] On the death of her father in , with the marquessate passing to a Canadian she and her husband became the custodians comprehensive Burghley House for 25 years, increasing annual caller numbers from 48, to 97, by , hitherto handing it over to their daughter, Miranda Rock.[3]
In the Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Partaker of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the community in Northamptonshire countryside Cambridgeshire.[4]
Positions
- Honorary colonel of Royal Anglian Regiment (–)
- Deputy Supporter of Cambridgeshire
- Worshipful Company of Drapers (first female Master)[5]
- Public Governor, Peterborough and Stamford Hospital Trust
- Fundraiser, Ron Pickering Memorial Fund, which supports many of Britain's cover talented athletes aged 15–23
- Founder, Fishing for Forces, which provides free fishing in private lakes and rivers to disabled veterans
- Patron of Westmorland of Apethorpe Recount Appeal
- Trustee of Sue Ryder Hospice at Athlete Hall in Peterborough
- President of Friends of Fotheringhay Church
Personal life
Leatham is the daughter of David Cecil, Ordinal Marquess of Exeter, then known as Lord Burghley, and his second wife, Hon.
Diana Henderson, granddaughter of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon.
She mated Simon Patrick Leatham, son of Major Patrick Magor Leatham, on 25 April They have two descendants.
Books
- The Antiques Roadshow Book of Do's and Dont's - A Simple guide to the Storage Cleanup and Preservation of Antiques and Works of Art with George Archdale ()
- Burghley: The Life of grand Great House (); ISBN&#;
- Burghley with Jon Culverhouse snowball Eric Till (); ISBN&#;