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Biography of Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire 1897-1966

On 21st December 1897 Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire was born.

Around 1925. Rita Martin. Photograph of Mimi Crawford (age 27).

Around 1925. Lenare. Photograph of Mimi Crawford (age 27).

1927. Sasha aka Alexander Stewart. Photograph of Mimi Crawford (age 29).

24th June 1927. Sasha aka Alexander Stewart. Photograph of Mimi Crawford (age 29).

In 1934 Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire (age 27) and Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (age 36) were married. She by marriage Countess Suffolk, Countess Berkshire. He the son of Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire and Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 55).

On 27th March 1935 [her son] Michael Howard 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire was born to [her husband] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire (age 29) and Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (age 37).

On 12th May 1941 [her husband] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire (age 35) was killed. He had successfully defused thirty-four bombs. The thirty-fifth exploded at Erith Marshes, Kent bomb cemetery. The 250kg bomb, dropped six months earlier, contained a Zus 40 booby trap that detonated when the Type 17 fuse was withdrawn. The explosion killed fourteen people: the Earl, his chauffeur Fred Hards, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden (who died in the ambulance), and eleven other people who were nearby.

[her son] Michael Howard 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire (age 6) succeeded 21st Earl Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire, 13th Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 13th Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.

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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.

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On 22nd February 1966 Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (age 68) died.