![]() Shortly before her death in 1917, Lady Anne inherited the Wentworth title after her niece, Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth, died childless. Finally, leaving the stud under the management of Judith, Lady Anne left England permanently in October 1915 and spent the remaining years of her life at Sheykh Obeyd. Her daughter Judith lived full-time at the Crabbet estate with her own husband and children. Following the separation, Lady Anne spent several months each year at her Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo, a 32-acre (129,000 m 2) apricot orchard the Blunts had purchased in 1882 and set up as a breeding farm for the horses they owned in Egypt. ![]() ![]() Under its terms, Lady Anne kept Crabbet Park and half the horses, while Blunt took Caxtons Farm, also known as Newbuildings, and the rest of the stock. Lady Anne signed a Deed of Partition drawn up by Wilfrid. The Blunts agreed to a formal separation and the Stud was divided. However, in 1906, when his mistress Dorothy Carleton (later adopted as his niece) moved into their home, Lady Anne, unable to tolerate what she termed an "oriental" lifestyle, left him. īlunt also had many mistresses, often simultaneously. In England, his theory that Arabian horses should live under "desert conditions", even in a cold, damp climate, often meant the animals lived with insufficient fodder and were exposed to the elements to an unnecessary degree. At times, this meant leaving valuable bloodstock in Egypt under the care of inept managers who neglected the horses to the point that some died of exposure and thirst. Lady Anne and Wilfrid differed over management of their horses, with Wilfrid, though the less talented horseman, often prevailing on management decisions. Although a fond father to Judith when she was a child, Blunt made no secret that he would have preferred a son. Anne never ceased to grieve over her miscarriages and the babies who died soon after birth. Her many pregnancies produced a single surviving child, Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth. Lady Anne's 1869 marriage to Blunt was not a happy one. She possessed the instrument for 30 years, selling it in 1895. It was extensively refurbished in 1864 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, from whom she purchased the instrument upon recommendation of her instructor, Leopold Jansa. She owned a violin made by Stradivarius, since known as the Lady Blunt Stradivarius, though she was not the original owner. Her own voice comes through more clearly in her published journals. The books Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates and A Pilgrimage to Nejd are attributed to her and were based on her journals, but were extensively edited by her husband. Lady Anne travelled extensively in the Middle East and is particularly noted as the first European woman to ride through the Arabian desert to reach the city of Ha'il. Her interest in the Arabian horse, combined with Wilfrid's interest in Middle Eastern politics, led to their mutual interest in saving the Arabian breed and thus their many journeys. She also had a lifelong love of horses, dating from childhood, and was an accomplished equestrienne. Lady Anne was fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, a skilled violinist and a gifted artist who studied drawing with John Ruskin. Inscribed verso of backing and dated 1868. Ī watercolour by Lady Anne described as "'Window onto an (?)Italian lake'. In childhood, she was known as Annabella, after the grandmother for whom she was named. Her maternal grandparents were the poet Lord Byron and Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth. Augusta Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer. Lady Anne was a daughter of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, and the Hon. To this day, the vast majority of purebred Arabian horses trace their lineage to at least one Crabbet ancestor. Among the great and influential horses they took to England were Azrek, Dajania, Queen of Sheba, Rodania and the famous Ali Pasha Sherif stallion Mesaoud. From the late 1870s, Wilfrid and Lady Anne travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East, buying Arabian horses from Bedouin princes such as Emir Fendi Al-Fayez and the Egyptian Ali Pasha Sherif. Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth (née King-Noel 22 September 1837 – 15 December 1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder, with her husband the poet Wilfrid Blunt, of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo.
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