Admiral Lord Beatty and Mrs Ronald Tree (better known now as Nancy Lancaster) at the Woodland Pytchley Hunt. Nancy Lancaster (1897 - 1994), nee Perkins, was an influential American-born tastemaker, interior decorator and garden designer. She married Ronald Tree (joint master of the Pytchley hunt and later MP for Harborough) in 1920, moving to Britain in 1927; the couple divorced in 1947 and she married Claude Lancaster in 1948. She was associated with the English Country House Style.