Pamela plowden biography

  • Known for her beauty, charm, and cleverness, as well as a successful socialite, wife, and mother, Pamela Plowden will also be remembered as Winston Churchill's.
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    April 21,

    Finest Hour , Winter

    Page 13

    By Fred Glueckstein

    Fred Glueckstein is the author of Churchill and Colonist II () and a frequent contributor to Finest Hour.

    In Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills (), Mary Soames wrote of her father: “Winston was never a ‘ladies’ man,’ yet he greatly admired beautiful, spirited women, and over these last years formed several attachments. His first great love was Pamela Plowden, daughter of the Resident at Hyderabad, whom he had met as a young subaltern in India.”1 Although he proposed marriage to her that she did not accept, Churchill’s friendship with Pamela Plowden, later Countess of Lytton, continued for the rest of his life.

    As a junior officer with the Fourth Hussars stationed in Bangalore, Churchill first met the India-born Pamela Frances Audrey Plowden in November Her father was the diplomatic representative of the British government in Hyderabad.

    On 26 October , Churchill

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    Lytton, Pamela Frances Audrey, (nee Plowden, wife of 2nd Lord Lytton)

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    Scope and Contents Correspondence with Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden], her daughter Lady Cobbold and others on Lytton family papers relating to WSC. Also includes: copies of WSC's letters to Pamela, , on subjects including visiting Venice, , his continuing affection for her, visiting the French army and Italy, , her departure for India in , sending her his history of the Second World War and a painting of Knebworth [Hertfordshire], , his distress at her poor

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    Conditions Governing Access:From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to

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    Pamela Frances Audrey Chichele-Plowden

    F, #, b. 17 April , d. 6 July

    &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Pamela Frances AudreyChichele-Plowden was born on 17 April 1,2 She was the daughter of SirTrevor John ChicheleChichele-Plowden.3 She married Victor Alexander George RobertBulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, son of Edward RobertBulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton and EdithVilliers, on 3 April 1 She died on 6 July at age 1
    &#;&#;&#;&#;&#;From 3 April , her married name became Bulwer-Lytton. After her marriage, Pamela Frances Audrey Chichele-Plowden was styled as Countess of Lytton on 3 April She was appointed Dame of Grace, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (J.)1 She was awarded the Imperial beställning of the Crown of India (C.I.)1

    Edith Villiers1

    F, #, d. 17 September

    Last Edited=22 Jul

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    Children of Edith Villiers and Edward RobertBulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

    • Edward Roland JohnBulwer-Lytton4 b. 19 Sep , d. 24 Jul
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