Alvilde lees milne biography definition

Alvilde Lees-Milne (néeBridges; 13 August 1909 – 18 March 1994) was a British gardening and landscape expert.

Early life

Alvilde was born on 13 August 1909 in London.

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James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August – 28 December ) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from to.

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British gardening and landscape expert ().

Architectural Historian and preservationist; diarist.

She was the only child of the Lt.-Gen. Sir (George) Tom Molesworth Bridges, the Governor of South Australia from 1922 to 1927, by his wife Janet Florence Menzies,^[1] and was the great-niece of Robert Bridges, the one-time Poet Laureate.^[2]

Personal life

On 9 January 1933, Alvilde married Hon.

Anthony Freskin Charles Hamby Chaplin, who would in 1949 become the 3rd Viscount Chaplin. They had one daughter, Oenone Clarissa Chaplin (1934-2021), who married Michael Charles Deane Luke (b. 1925), son of Sir Harry Charles LukeKCMG, of Hollingbourne Manor, in 1958.^[1]

While married to Lord Chaplin, she met James Lees-Milne, who became her second husband, during World War II while she was engaged in an affair with the arts patron Princess Winnaretta de Polignac.