Her role in Chatsworth’s fortunes alone marked her for posterity, but she will be remembered as the sixth and youngest of the Mitford sisters, whose outlandish behavior and political radicalism seemed to make them characters contrived by one of their chums, the satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh. She lived near the Derbyshire estate of Chatsworth House, the neoclassical palace that she and her husband, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, rescued from its post-World War II nadir and revived as one of England’s finest country houses. The death was announced by her son, Peregrine, who did not release the location or cause.
Deborah Mitford, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was the last of six famous sisters in an upper-crust British family whose antics left her countrymen shocked, appalled and always entertained.
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