Anne Isabella Noel (King) Blunt (1837 - 1917)

Born 22 Sep 1837 in United Kingdom

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Died 15 Dec 1917 at age 80 in Cairo, Egypt

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Ann Isabella Noel King, second child and only daughter of William King, 8th Lord King, Baron of Ockham (later 1st Earl of Lovelace) and his first wife Augusta Ada Byron. Her birth was registered in the St James Westminster Registration District in the third quarter of 1837. ^[1]

Lady Anne was fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, a skilled violinist and a gifted artist.

She loved horses and was an accomplished rider. Her favourite riding mare was an Arabian horse named Kasida.

Along with her husband she founded Crabbet Arabian Stud. over 90 percent of Arabian Horses today have Crabbet bloodstock in their pedigrees. Crabbet-bred Arabian horses have a reputation for athleticism and classic type, good temperament, performance ability and soundness.

She raised her niece Ada Mary King-Milbanke after the separation of her parents shortly after her birth. After Ada's death Lady Anne inherited the Wentworth Title.

Sources

1. ↑ Birth Registration: "England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915"
   Original data: England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office; Volume: 1; Page: 60
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8912 #16859370 (accessed 17 July 2023)
   Ann Isabella Noel King birth registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1837 in St James Westminster, London, England.

• "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQVS-TGY : 30 October 2015), Ann Noel King in household of Earl Of Lovelace, St James, Middlesex, England; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Blunt,_15th_Baroness_Wentworth

• Rosemary Archer, ‘Blunt , Anne Isabella Noel, suo jure Baroness Wentworth (1837–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. This is a subscription site but readers of British Libraries can access the material free of charge providing their library subscribes.

See also:

• 'Virginia Woolf' a biography by her nephew Quentin Bell, published by The Hogarth Press, Pimlico, London in 1996. ISBN 0 7126 7450 0, includes extensive family trees. Hundreds of friends, professional connections and people in the 'Bloomsbury set' are also mentioned in the text.'Virginia Woolf' a biography by her nephew Quentin Bell