Lady Herriot

In the novel Absent in the Spring, Lady Herriot is likely to be an acquaintance of Joan Scudamore or someone who lives in the locality of Crayminster. She is also the aunt of William Wray. Wray had come back from Iraq on leave to stay with his aunt. He called at the house of the Scudamores to return Barbara's tennis racquet which she had left behind, presumably at Lady Herriot's house. This was how Wray had been introduced to Joan.