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Jun 24, 2024 · In the mid 1890s, Lady Emily Lytton looked so unhappy when the witty young architect Edwin Lutyens saw her at a party, that he longed to rescue her with his jokes. Tall, large-nosed and spiritual, Emily was, like Lutyens, shy – but she came from a high-octane family, one of her sisters being a prominent suffragette.
Ursula Lutyens (1904–1967), wife of the 3rd Viscount Ridley. They were the parents of the 4th Viscount Ridley (1925–2012), and of the Cabinet Minister Nicholas Ridley (1929–1993). Nicholas Ridley was the father of Edwin Lutyens's biographer, Jane Ridley .
Charles Rennie Mackintosh said himself that his work owed everything to his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald, while the three Mrs Frank Lloyd Wrights – each in different ways unfortunate – are crucial to understanding the amazing life of Lutyens’s American admirer.
First, he appreciates the sort of man Lutyens was, the influences upon him, and how he interacted with his family (especially his wife Lady Emily) and his clients.
In 1897 Edwin Lutyens married Emily Lytton, daughter of a Viceroy of India, whose father had died five years earlier. These five children, Barbra, Robert, Ursula, Elisabeth and Mary, were born by 1908.
Dec 20, 2019 · His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult.
In April 1897 Lutyens married Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton, daughter of the late Viceroy of India, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. They had five children, but the marriage experienced a period of near-estrangement on account of Emily’s heavy involvement with Theosophy and devotion to the spiritual leader Jiddu Krishnamurti.
