Artist in a variety of media, born in Walton, Lancashire, daughter of Sir James Reynolds, Bart, but brought up in Liverpool. She married George Faithfull in 1917 and after he died in early 1940s took as her second husband in 1943 the writer and critic Cuthbert Worsley. After the war while they were on a trip through France he left her, in Marseilles, and she stayed on to work. She frequently painted alone abroad. Faithfull studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1923–4, later at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris. For a time Faithfull was surgical artist to Sir Archibald McIndoe, the pioneer plastic surgeon, at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. Leila (pronounced Lyla) Faithfull was noted for her portraits, shown extensively at Leicester Galleries, NEAC, RBA, RA, ROI and elsewhere.