 Edith Picton-Turbervill was born at Lower House, Fownhope, Herefordshire on 13 June 1872, the twin daughter of John Picton Warlow, then a captain in the Madras Staff Corps, and his wife Eleanor (née Temple) daughter of Sir Grenville Temple, Bt, of Stowe.She changed her name to Picton-Turbervill at the same time as her father, when in 1892 he inherited the Turbervill estate of Ewenny Priory in Glamorgan.The estate was over 3,000 acres and her father was a mine royalty owner and a Conservative; he was a JP and a member of the Penybont Rural District Council.