Belinda Bellville (29 March 1930 â 5 May 2024) was a British fashion designer, and the co-founder in 1953 (with David Sassoon) of Bellville Sassoon.
She was born on 29 March 1930, the daughter of Anthony Seymour Bellville (1902âÂÂ1970) and Audrey Dorothy C Kidston (1906âÂÂ1997), who was the younger sister of the racing driver and aviator Glen Kidston (1899âÂÂ1931). In 1940, her mother Audrey married Hon. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor.
In 1952, she married David Whately, a partner in a company that made mobiles and abstract sculptures for advertising, and was later a financier. He died in 2008. They had three daughters together.
Their daughter Polly Whately married Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester.
She died on 5 May 2024, aged 94.