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| Born | Lady Anne Elizabeth Fitzalan-Howard (1938-06-12)12 June 1938 |
| Died | 23 November 2014(2014-11-23) (aged 76) |
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| Family | Fitzalan-Howard family |
Anne Elizabeth Cowdrey, 14th Lady Herries of Terregles, Baroness Cowdrey of Tonbridge (née Fitzalan-Howard; 12 June 1938 – 23 November 2014) was a Britishracehorse trainer and peeress.
BornLady Anne Fitzalan-Howard on 12 June 1938, she was the eldest of four daughters ofBernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk andThe Hon. Lavinia Strutt. She had three younger sisters:Mary (who succeeded her as 15th Lady Herries of Terregles),Sarah andJane (presently 16th Lady Herries of Terregles). She grew up at the family seatArundel Castle inWest Sussex. She was educated at the Priory School at Arundel and theConvent of the Sacred Heart,Woldingham.
From 1970 to 1979 she lived atEveringham in theEast Riding of Yorkshire, where she wasMaster of Foxhounds for the Middleton Hunt, before returning to the Arundel area. She began training racehorses atAngmering in 1983.[1]
Herries operated as a racehorse trainer[2][3] for over thirty years from the Angmering Park estate,[1] on theSouth Downs, nearArundel, Sussex. The most notable horse she trained was theRacing Post Trophy andPrix du Jockey Club winnerCeltic Swing, who was crowned the champion two-year-old of 1994.[3] She also had success in theKing Edward VII Stakes,Great Voltigeur Stakes,Coronation Cup andGrand Prix de Saint-Cloud withSheriff's Star.[3] Amongst her other notable horses was Taufan's Melody who won theCaulfield Cup in Australia atodds of 66–1 in 1998, while she won theWetherby Pattern Chase,Eider Chase andRowland Meyrick Handicap Chase with Set Point in the 1970s.[1] She trained fewer winners in later years, but her 2014 record of sevenflat winners had been one of her highest for several seasons.[3]
Upon the death of her father in 1975 without a son, Lady Anne as the eldest daughter inherited the Herries of Terregles title, aScottishLordship of Parliament, and became the14th Lady Herries of Terregles.[4] The dukedom and her father's other titles passed to his heir male,Miles Fitzalan-Howard. From 1975 until thereform of the House of Lords in 1999, Herries was eligible to sit in theLords but chose not to do so.[5]
In 1985, Herries married England cricketerColin Cowdrey, the couple remained married until Cowdrey's death in 2000. Herries died in 2014, aged 76, from pneumonia.[3]
Lady Herries of Terregles, racehorse trainer, 75
Lady Herries of Terregles, Anne Fitzalan-Howard, (Did not take seat), 1975–99
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| Preceded by | Lady Herries of Terregles 1975–2014 | Succeeded by |
