WENTWORTH BEQUEST. Vols. CCLXXXIV-CCXCII. Correspondence of Lady Anne Blunt and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; 1867-1917. Nine volumes. 1867-1917

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WENTWORTH BEQUEST. Vols. CCLXXXIV-CCXCII. Correspondence of Lady Anne Blunt and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; 1867-1917. Nine volumes. 1867-1917

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Blunt, Anne, Lady, 1837-1917

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Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], suo jure Baroness Wentworth, traveller and breeder of Arab horses. She was the only daughter of of William King, first earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada King, the only child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. From the guide to the Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1864?, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], su...

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922

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Wilfred Scawen Blunt was an English author and explorer. He was born in Sussex, and served in the diplomatic corps in Europe and South America. He retired in 1872, married Anne Isabella Noel, Lord Byron's granddaughter, and they travelled through Europe and the Middle East, and went into partnership breeding Arabian horses. He vociferously opposed British imperialism, and was imprisoned in 1888 for supporting Irish Home Rule. He kept a diary for most of his adult life, and also wrote numerous tr...