They first lived in Yorkshire and later Chichester , West Sussex .
She was the eldest daughter of Philip and Theresa Ripley , they were a comfortably middle - class family with servants -- her father was a managing director , and ran an agricultural engineering works in Ipswich .
servants first lived in Yorkshire and later Chichester , West Sussex .
She was the eldest daughter of Philip and Theresa Ripley , they were a comfortably middle - class family with servants -- her father was a managing director , and ran an agricultural engineering works in Ipswich .