Wenefryde Agatha Scott, 10th Countess of Dysart was a Scottish noblewoman.
Background
Wenefryde was the daughter of Charles Norman Scott (1853–1938) and Agnes Mary Tollemache (1855–1912). Her mother was one of the daughters of the controversial William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower (1820–1872) and received the precedence of an earl"s daughter in a warrant of precedence granted in 1881.
Career
Scott was a Justice of the Peace for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and a Justice of the Peace and Doctor of Laws for Leicestershire. Following the death of her mother in 1912, and Wenefryde"s marriage soon after, Wenefryde inherited the Bosworth estate. Wenefryde sold the estate and moved to Wales whilst her father retired to Ampney Street Peter, Gloucestershire.
The inheritance brought with it further estate.
The Leicestershire property including 26,445 acres (10,702 ha). In 1939 Wenefryde purchased Stobo Castle but rarely inhabited it due to the onset of war.
Owain died there on 18 February 1941. Parts of the wider estate were sold off over the following three decades and the castle and garden went into a slow decline.
The Countess lived at Stobo until the mid-1960s, after which it lay empty until sold at auction by Sothebys in 1972.
Wenefryde Agatha Scott died 2 June 1975 and the Dysart title passed to eldest daughter, Rosamund.