Sarah Troughton

Troughton is the eldest of the five children of Sir Timothy Colman KG, a past Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk,[1][2] and of Lady Mary Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, a granddaughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Her maternal grandfather was a brother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, so that she is a first cousin twice removed of the present Earl of Strathmore and also a first cousin once removed of Elizabeth II.[1] Her ancestor Jeremiah Colman (1777–1851) made a fortune from Colman's mustard, a business which eventually grew into Reckitt & Colman, of which her father was a director until 1989.[2] In 1977 she married Peter John Charles Troughton (born 1948), a member of the Diplomatic Service and the eldest son of Sir Charles Hugh Willis Troughton, chairman of W H Smith.[3] They have a son and two daughters.[4][5]

From 1990 to 2000 Troughton was Lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Kent.[6]

Living at Wanborough, near Swindon,[7] she became a trustee of the Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon, a role in which she still serves, and is also President of Community First/Youth Action Wiltshire and chairman of the Chelsea Physic Garden.[8] She became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in 2006.[7] In December 2011, with effect from February 2012, she was promoted to the Lord Lieutenancy.[8] Her Vice-Lieutenant is Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne.

As Lord Lieutenant, her public duties include overseeing arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the Royal Family and escorting Royal visitors; Representing H. M. the Queen at events and presenting awards and medals on her behalf; liaising with the Wiltshire units of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force; leading the local magistracy as Chairman of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace; and advising on nominations for national honours.