Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth

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Judith Blunt-Lytton

Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness von Wentworth (born February 6, 1873 in London , † August 8, 1957 in Crawley , Sussex ) was a British aristocrat, breeder of Arab horses and tennis player . As the owner of the Crabbet Park stud from 1917 to 1957, she had a profound influence on the breeding of Arabian thoroughbred horses worldwide. At the beginning of the 21st century, around 90 percent of all animals registered with the world organization WAHO carried blood from the lines of the Crabbet breed.

Life and accomplishments

Judith was the eldest daughter of the British poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his wife Anne Blunt , who is considered a key figure in the founding of European Arab breeding. Her grandmother was the mathematician Ada Lovelace , who is known as the world's first woman programmer. Her great grandfather was the poet Lord Byron . Judith spent much of her childhood in Egypt and the Middle East , where her parents were busy buying Arab horses for their studs. As a result, the entire family was familiar with the culture of the Middle East and spoke the Arabic and Turkish languages ​​fluently.

On February 2, 1899, Judith Neville married Stephen Lytton , the youngest son of the Earl of Lytton in Cairo . The couple later moved to Crabbet Park in Sussex , United Kingdom , where they had three children:

  • Noel Anthony Scawen (1900–1985)
  • Anne (later known as Lady Anne Lytton) (1901–1979)
  • Winifred (later known as Lady Winifrid Tryon) (1904–1985)

Blunt-Lytton later became estranged from her husband and was presumably divorced from him in 1923. Neville remarries a short time later, while she did not remarry and devoted herself to the management of her stud farm until her death. In 1947, Blunt-Lytton's ex-husband, Neville, inherited the title of Earl of Lytton from his childless brother. After his own death in 1951, the title passed to their son Noel. After her divorce, she became estranged from her children and saw her son Noel for the first time in 30 years on her deathbed in 1957. After her death, the title Baron Wentworth passed on to him.

Stud history

In 1904, Judith's father transferred the Crabbet Park stud to her. In the same year she changed her last name to Blunt-Lytton . Two years later, Blunt-Lytton's parents separated and shared the Crabbet Park Stud. While her father Wilfrid stayed near the stud, her mother Lady Anne moved to Egypt to her stud Sheykh Obeyd near Cairo, where she continued to breed Arabian horses.

In 1917 Blunt-Lytton inherited the title of Baroness Wentworth from her mother. Due to her father's initial attempts to disinherit her in order to get all of Crabbet Park's ownership, Judith also fell out with her mother, who subsequently transferred her stake in Crabbet Park to Blunt-Lytton's daughter Anne under the supervision of an independent trustee . This annoyed Wilfrid and a legal dispute ensued, as a result of which ownership of the horses changed several times between the two studs in the following years. Wilfrid, meanwhile in serious financial worries, sold the horses he owned to pay off his debts. Some of these animals were later bought back by Blunt-Lytton, but many of them - especially those sold in the United States - were beyond her control.

Blunt-Lytton's daughter, Lady Anne Lytton, continued to breed Arabian horses and earned worldwide merit through her work.

The last will of Lady Judith Wentworth provided that her stake in the Crabbet Park stud should pass to her stud manager Geoffrey Covey. However, he died a few days before Lady Wentworth, which is why the stud fell to his son Cecil. The buildings of the estate on Crabbet Park still exist today. However, after the construction of the new M23 motorway in 1971 divided the property into two parts, Cecil Covey - now an old man himself - could not avoid selling the stud and giving up the horses.

Web links

Individual evidence

Translated from the article on Wikipedia.

  1. ^ Arabian Horse Association: Crabbet Bloodlines . ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arabianhorses.org
  2. ↑ Rosalind Mazzawi: The Arabian Horse in Europe . ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saudi Aramco World March / April 1986, pp. 22-33. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saudiaramcoworld.com
  3. ^ Anne Lytton: Memories of Crabbet Stud . ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: The Arabian Horse Journal , August 1963, 6th year, issue 2. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mistyridge-arabians.com
predecessor Office successor
Anne Blunt Baroness Wentworth
1917-1957 		Noel Lytton
personal data
SURNAME Blunt-Lytton, Judith, 16th Baroness Wentworth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blunt-Lytton, Judith Anne Dorothea, 16th Baroness of Wentworth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British aristocrat, breeder of Arab horses and tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1957
Place of death Crawley , Sussex