Born in 1925 to the entrepreneur John Moores and his wife Ruby, Betty was raised in the context of her father’s extraordinary success. John Moores founded the Littlewoods empire, a retail and football betting company, in 1923. By 1982 Littlewoods was the largest privately run company in Europe, with, at its height, over 510,000 employees and a turnover of over £3.5 billion per year; success due in no little part to the contribution of Betty, by then Lady Grantchester.
 
Betty was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she met her future husband Kenneth Suenson-Taylor, who succeeded his father to become 2nd Baron Grantchester in 1976. Together the couple had six children. In 1977 Betty joined the Littlewoods board where her innate commercial acumen and drive set her apart as an extraordinary business woman, particularly in the context of an era when women in the boardroom were scarcely known.
 
Following the sale of both the pools business and retail empire in 2000 and 2002 respectively, Lady Grantchester dedicated herself to philanthropy, which, amongst many others, included directing and providing financial support for mature female undergraduates at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, The Moores Family Charity Foundation, the Welsh National Opera and the John Moores Painting Prize, one of the earliest winners of which was David Hockney in 1967. In memory of her late husband, she also set up a substantial bursary to aid law students at Christ’s College, Cambridge.
 
Lady Grantchester was always immaculately dressed, her personal collection of jewels offered here, a testament to her taste and discerning eye. Although Lady Grantchester had a considerable personal fortune her greatest pleasure was derived from her family and  the charitable works to which she devoted the rest of her life.