After a long fight to establish a licensed hotel, she finally gave up the struggle whilst in her late fifties.In the late 1940s the property was trading as Elcot Park Hotel & Country Club. Mrs Edith Weston bought the tenancy from Lady Helen De Crespigny in 1949 and continued trading on this basis, linking Elcot with _her_ other family business in London (The Surrey Restaurant in Surrey St, London WC2). <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Edith Weston <sep>, B: Lady Helen De Crespigny