Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Aileen Mary Roberts, 2nd Countess Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, DBE (20 September 1870 - 9 October 1944), was one of the six children of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, V.C., and Nora Henrietta (née Bews). She succeeded to the titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and Countess Roberts on 14 November 1914.Lady Roberts was chairman of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops. Because Roberts' sons had died before him, the Earldom was allowed to pass down the female line, and Aileen became the 2nd Countess Roberts in 1914. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918. She died in 1944, unmarried, aged 74.She was succeeded as 3rd Countess Roberts by her younger sister, Ada Edwina Stewart Roberts (born 28 March 1875 – died 21 February 1955), who married Major Henry Lewin (1872-1946), who, by 1917, attained the rank of Brigadier-General and the Légion d'honneur. The 3rd Countess, like her father before her, would live to see the death of her own son, and only child, Lieutenant Frederick Roberts Alexander Lewin (born 18 January 1915 – died May 1940), who was killed in action during World War II in 1940.. }
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- Aileen_Roberts,_2nd_Countess_Roberts abstract "Aileen Mary Roberts, 2nd Countess Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, DBE (20 September 1870 - 9 October 1944), was one of the six children of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, V.C., and Nora Henrietta (née Bews). She succeeded to the titles of Viscountess St. Pierre and Countess Roberts on 14 November 1914.Lady Roberts was chairman of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops. Because Roberts' sons had died before him, the Earldom was allowed to pass down the female line, and Aileen became the 2nd Countess Roberts in 1914. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918. She died in 1944, unmarried, aged 74.She was succeeded as 3rd Countess Roberts by her younger sister, Ada Edwina Stewart Roberts (born 28 March 1875 – died 21 February 1955), who married Major Henry Lewin (1872-1946), who, by 1917, attained the rank of Brigadier-General and the Légion d'honneur. The 3rd Countess, like her father before her, would live to see the death of her own son, and only child, Lieutenant Frederick Roberts Alexander Lewin (born 18 January 1915 – died May 1940), who was killed in action during World War II in 1940.".