Lady Kinloss - Telegraph On her marriage in 1950 to Capt Greville Freeman, Lord Lyon King of Arms changed their surname to Freeman-Grenville. Her husband became a lecturer in African, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies (despite being a Catholic) and Swahili, in Tanzania, Aden and later Ghana. When, in 1954, Oliver Lyttleton resigned as Colonial Secretary and was created a peer, he chose the title of Chandos. Lady Kinloss as a descendant of the last duke had to be contacted in Mwanza to give her consent. In 1960 Lord Reading proposed admitting peeresses in their own right to the Lords, the first life peeresses already being seated. They came in three years later under the Peerage Act, which also enabled hereditary peers to disclaim. Lady Kinloss was among 20 peeresses eligible, but attended rarely until the family came home, settling at Sheriff Hutton, near York. Her husband played a major part in organising Pope John Paul II's visit to the city in 1982. A Crossbencher, Lady Kinloss voted against divorce law reform, criticised the investigation of benefit claimants on the basis of anonymous tip-offs, condemned a Bill allowing the incurably ill to stipulate that they should not be kept alive as "an invitation to murder," and pressed for disabled and non-disabled children to be given a school education side-by-side. She served on the Lords" Committee on the European Communities from 1990 to 1992, and later on its social and consumer affairs subcommittee. When all but 92 hereditaries were excluded under the Labour government's House of Lords Act of 1999 she hoped to stay on as one of 28 elected cross-benchers, but came 38th out of 79 candidates. Lady Kinloss's husband died in 2005. Her son, the Master of Kinloss, died in January. She had two daughters; the elder - Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville, born in 1957 - succeeds as the 13th Lady Kinloss. Lady Kinloss, born August 18 1922, died September 30 2012