Pamela Wyndham, Baroness Egremont (née Wyndham-Quin; 29 April 1925 – 4 November 2013), was a British society hostess and traveller, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, before marrying her cousin John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont.
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Early life
She was born Pamela Wyndham-Quin on 29 April 1925 at 66 Oxford Terrace, Paddington, London, the third and youngest daughter of Royal Navy Captain Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin (1890–1983), and his wife, Marjorie Elizabeth Wyndham-Quin, née Pretyman (1897–1969). Her father was the younger son of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, and her mother was the daughter of Ernest George Pretyman, a Conservative Party politician and MP, and a former Civil Lord of the Admiralty. She was educated at home by a long series of governesses, and had two older sisters, Ursula and Mollie.
Career
At the start of the Second World War, Wyndham joined the Women's Royal Naval Service, who seconded her to Bletchley Park to "work on secret decoding operations", thanks to her abilities with foreign languages, and she was based nearby at Woburn Abbey. Near the end of the war, her father was appointed British naval attaché in Argentina, and she went with him.