Annabel Huth Jackson



Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff, Mrs Jackson (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a Scottish poet, writer and high society hostess. She published her memoir A Victorian Childhood in 1932 with Methuen Publishing.

The eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster, she was the author of A Victorian Childhood, which was published in 1932, under the pen name Annabel Huth Jackson, using her married name.

In 1894, she married Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons. They had one son, Frederick, who married Helen Vinogradoff, daughter of the distinguished historian Sir Paul Vinogradoff, and three daughters: Konradin, later Lady Arthur Hobhouse; Anne Marie, later Anne Fremantle; and Claire, later Countess de Loriol Chandieu.