Miles Fletcher de Montmorency was a painter, baronet, son of Hervey Lodge de Montmorency and husband of the artist Rachel de Montmorency. He studied at Dover School of Art, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. Exhibited RA, RBA, Walker’s and Cooling Galleries, ROI and at the National Gallery, London, with war artists. Elected RBA, 1935, of which he was in the mid-1940s honorary librarian. Wrote A Short History of Painting in England. Lived in London.