page_title: Lady Margaret Fortescue
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Margaret Fortescue / Career
caption_attribution_description: Castle Hill, Filleigh, North Devon, south facade
context_page_description: Lady Margaret Fortescue DL was a British huntswoman, and one of the country's largest private landowners, including the Castle Hill estate and 20,000 acres of Exmoor.
context_section_description: During the Second World War, Fortescue worked in London's War Office as a secretary, and living in a Belgravia flat in known as "The Hovel", as well as in Cairo.
  Fortescue was well known for riding side saddle. Fortescue was a fearless rider, and had several falls, and "after consulting her doctor and swallowing a few painkillers with wine, she almost invariably carried on".
  In the 1950, she travelled by private train, "with horses, grooms and a retinue of staff on board."
  On her father's death in 1958, she inherited the Castle Hill estate, and became one of the country's largest private landowners.
  Fortescue served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Devon.
caption: Castle Hill
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