Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland is a Scottish noblewoman.
Background
She was born Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the only child of Major Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921), a son of Cromartie, Duke of Sutherland, and his wife Elizabeth Demarest (1892–1931), the former wife of John G. A. Leishman, Junior. and a daughter of Warren Gardner Demarest of New York City.
Career
Her father died while taking part in a big game expedition in Rhodesia, contracting malaria and dying there on 28 April 1921, aged 31. Her mother then married, in 1931, Baron George Osten Driesen, but died three months later. Upon his death, she succeeded in her own right as the twenty-fourth Countess of Sutherland and Lady Strathnaver, whilst the Dukedom and the other titles that could pass in the male line only were inherited by the Earl of Ellesmere.
She also inherited most of her uncle"s large land-holdings, including Dunrobin Castle.
She subsequently dropped the double-barrels in her family name, in order to be recognised as Chief of Clan Sutherland.