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157, 160, 165, 183; ‘Benjamina’ nickname xviii, 135; birth 11, 12; Bosie Douglas and 107, 290; Buckingham Street house 356–7; character xv, 103, 105, 121–2, 127–8, 135, 138, 145–6, 148, 149, 152–3, 156–7, 191–6, 202, 226–7, 257–9, 289, 290, 291–2, 326–7, 360–1, 365; Charlie Adeane and 103; Charty Ribbesdale, spats with xv, xvi, 195–6, 218; childhood 12, 17, 19, 22, 28, 44, 58, 60, 103, 105, 111, 112, 115; children and 192, 194, 222, 226–7, 251, 253, 328–9, 334, 336, 338–9, 341–2, 343–4, 346, 348, 360–1, 362
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; Clouds and 63–4, 75, 76, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 193, 195, 196, 374–5; Coronation Durbar, attends 239, 240; death 365–7; debut 115, 121, 122, 127–8; depression 157–8, 162–5, 287–8; Drummy and 163, 164–5; Edward Grey and 226, 252, 291–3, 315, 358–9, 360, 361–3;
Edward Wyndham Tennant
21, 341–2; eugenic theory and 360–1; at Falloden 251–2; at Florence 181–4, 195; First World War and 306, 307–9, 315, 316, 317, 319, 322, 328–30, 334, 336, 337–8, 339, 341–2, 343–5; General Election, 1900 and 218; George Wyndham and xiii, 197, 211, 247–8, 256; Glen and 192–3, 195, 220, 287, 288; Henry Cust and 133–8, 145–6, 148–51, 152–3, 157, 158, 159, 163–4, 182, 195, 291–2, 338–9; Hester, death of and 328, 329–30, 334, 345; honeymoon 191; India, visits 149–50, 152–60; Mananai Wyndham and 111, 112, 115, 154, 160, 183, 202, 207, 211, 212, 368; Margot Asquith and xv, 194, 195, 222, 228, 256–7, 288, 315–16, 346, 357–8; marriage, first xv, 181–4, 186–7, 191–6, 251, 349, 355, 356, 358, 359; marriage, second 358–62; Mary Wyndham and 22, 47, 58, 63–4, 109, 110, 122, 127, 129, 135–7, 142, 145–6, 163–4, 169, 183, 195–6, 202, 222–3, 224, 239, 240, 248, 273, 307–8, 328, 368; menopause 361; miscarriage 360; parents and 18, 19, 28, 78, 110, 122, 134–5, 137, 145, 146, 148, 149, 152–2, 165, 182, 186–7, 195, 196, 197, 202, 239, 247, 265, 352, 374–5; Patron of Mother’s Clinic, Holloway 360; pilgrimage back to Clouds, 1928 374–5; politics and 217–18, 220, 251–2, 273, 287; Queen Anne’s Gate house and 253, 258, 289, 291, 292, 316, 329, 343, 344, 356, 358; singing and guitar playing 122, 154, 156, 160, 200; social life/Society, attitude towards xv–xvi, 127–8, 195–6, 288, 289, 290; Souls and xv, 123, 146, 191, 192; spiritualism and 78, 344–6, 355–6, 357, 365; Stockton House and 194, 195; Stopes and 191–2, 346–8, 360–1; ‘The Babe’ 121;
The Book of Peace
211;
The Children and the Pictures
227;
The Earthen Vessel
343–4, 345;
The Sayings of the Children
227;
The White Wallet
289;
Village Notes
199; visit to Ireland, 1888 115; wealth 252–3; Wilsford Manor and 253–6; writing 197–9, 211, 227, 257, 288, 341–2, 343–4, 345
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Wyndham Sisters
portrait and xvi–xix, xx, 200, 202, 203, 212, 213
    Tennant, Stephen 195, 227–8, 252, 255, 292, 293, 308, 345, 356, 357, 358, 361, 362–3, 364, 365, 366, 367
    Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 7, 77
    Tennyson, Lionel 316
    Terry, Ellen 24, 38
    Thatched with Gold
(Airlie) 22, 38
    Thompson (‘Tommy’) (valet) 6, 9, 75
    Transvaal 196, 205, 213
    Treaty of London, 1839 299
    Treaty of Vereeniging 223, 233
    Treaty of Versailles, 1919 354
    Tree, Herbert Beerbohm 24, 131, 205
    Trussler, Rebecca 227, 293, 308
    Tweedsmuir, Lady 90, 91
    Tynan, Katherine 16, 220, 248
    United States 242, 345, 355
    Vernon, George 311, 317
    Vesci, Evelyn de 55, 115, 126, 128, 139, 140, 167, 170, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 319, 333, 371–2
    Vesci, John de 115, 140
    Victoria, Queen 6, 7, 26, 29, 32, 33–4, 61, 84, 100, 103, 104, 129, 161, 162, 163, 196–7, 223
    Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) 306, 313
    Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire 92, 123
    War Office xvi, 201, 205, 206, 209, 234, 243, 308, 326, 345
    Watts, George Frederic xx, 7, 14, 17, 29, 77, 200, 203, 213, 371
    Webb, Beatrice 218, 220, 229, 230
    Webb, Godfrey