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The Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Topley (née Cavendish; born 18 March 1957) is the third child and second daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Deborah Mitford, and the younger sister of the (present) 12th Duke.

Marriages

Lady Sophia has been married three times:

  1. Anthony Murphy - 20 October 1979, and they divorced childless in 1987.
  2. The Honourable Alastair Morrison - 19 July 1988, who in 2003 succeeded as 3rd Baron Margadale. They had two children, Declan James (born 11 July 1993) and Nancy Lorna (born 22 January 1995, named for Lady Sophia's aunt the novelist Nancy Mitford). The marriage ended in divorce.
  3. William Topley - 25 November 1999, an artist

Books

As Lady Sophia Murphy, she is the author of The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball (London: Sedgwick & Jackson, 1984), an album about a costume ball given in 1897 by a previous duchess of Devonshire.

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