Background
The daughter of William Graham, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King"s College London.
The daughter of William Graham, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King"s College London.
King"s College London.
They lived at Munstead House in Surrey. Their daughters were:
Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg, GBE, DStJ (1887–1973). Married first, in 1911, to the Honorary
Francis McLaren, Member of Parliament (killed 1917 in the Great War).
Secondly, in 1922, to Colonel B. C. Freyberg, Victoria Cross, later Lord Freyberg (1889–1963), and had issue by both husbands. Pamela Margaret (1889–1943).
Married 1908 the Right Honorary Reginald McKenna (died 1943), and had issue.
Agnes Jekyll was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire () in 1918 for her public works.
Lady Jekyll first published Kitchen Essays (1922) in The Times, reprinted in 2001 by Persephone Books.