Lucy Sale-Barker

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Lucy Elizabeth Drummond Sale-Barker, or Lucy Sale-Barker (1841–1892), a British children's writer, was born Lucy Elizabeth Drummond Davies, a daughter of Francis Henry Davies, Francis Henry Davies, a registrar of the court of chancery, who died at Coblentz on the Rhine on 22 October 1863, aged 72 and his wife Lady Lucy Clementina Drummond de Melfort (1795-1879), niece of the de jure thirteenth earl of Perth, and sister of the actual 5th Earl of Perth (1807-1902) whose claim was admitted in 1848 and actually restored 1853.

She had an older brother and sister, of whom little is known. Lucy married John Sale Barker, barrister-at-law, living at 22 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London in 1879. Her mother later lived with them and died at their house.

Descendants are not known, but a likely descendant is Maurice Drummond Sale-Barker, whose daughter Audrey Durell Drummond-Sale-Barker or "Wendy" Drummond-Sale-Barker (d. 21 December 1994, was the wife since 6 August 1949 of George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk (1905-1994). They had no issue.

This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), a publication now in the public domain.