page_title: Lady Anne Tree
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Anne Tree / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mereworth Castle, Kent, a Fane &amp; Colen Campbell collaboration, a postcard franked 1911.
context_page_description: Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice Tree was a British philanthropist, prison visitor, prisoner rights activist, and the founder of the charity Fine Cell Work, which gives prisoners the opportunity to do worthwhile work and acquire useful job skills for life after prison.
context_section_description: On 3 November 1949, she married the artist Michael Lambert Tree (1921–1999), son of the politician Ronald Tree, and his wife Nancy Lancaster, a partner in the furnishings company Colefax and Fowler. They had two adopted daughters.
  After the death of his uncle, Peter Beatty, on 26 October 1949, Tree inherited Mereworth Castle, Kent, where they lived subsequently. In 1968 the Trees bought Shute House, near Shaftesbury, where they commissioned Geoffrey Jellicoe to design a notable garden.
caption: Mereworth Castle, a postcard sent in 1911
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