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Pamela Wyndham, Baroness Egremont ( née Wyndham-Quin; 29 April 1925 – 4 November 2013), was a British society hostess and traveller, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, before marrying her cousin John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont .
Pamela Wyndham, Lady Egremont ( de soltera Wyndham-Quin; 29 de abril de 1925 - 4 de noviembre de 2013) fue una anfitriona y viajera de la sociedad británica que trabajó en Bletchley Park durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, antes de casarse con su primo John Wyndham, primer barón de Egremont.
29 de nov. de 2013 · When her elder son married in 1978, Pamela Egremont left Petworth, thereafter spending much time at the hitherto neglected Wyndham family property of Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria.
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Pamela Wyndham, Baroness Egremont (née Wyndham-Quin; 29 April 1925 – 4 November 2013), was a British society hostess and traveller, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, before marrying her cousin John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont.
She was born Pamela Wyndham-Quin on 29 April 1925 at 66 Oxford Terrace, Paddington, London, the third and youngest daughter of Royal Navy Captain Valentine Maurice Wyndham-Quin (1890–1983), and his wife, Marjorie Elizabeth Wyndham-Quin, née Pretyman (1897–1969). Her father was the younger son of Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-...
At the start of the Second World War, Wyndham joined the Women's Royal Naval Service, who seconded her to Bletchley Park to "work on secret decoding operations", thanks to her abilities with foreign languages, and she was based nearby at Woburn Abbey. Near the end of the war, her father was appointed British naval attaché in Argentina, and she went with him.
After her marriage in 1947, she became a well-known society beauty and hostess, principally at Petworth House.
Not long after returning to the UK, she met John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont, her second cousin once removed, and a nephew to Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield. He was also heir to Petworth House, a 17th-century house with an extensive art collection which included 20 Turner paintings, as well as land in Sussex and Cumbria. He was not able to serve in the armed forces due to poor eyesight, and had spent the war working for Harold Macmillan, a connection that was to continue until his death in 1972.
They married in 1947, when he was employed in the Conservative Research Department, and resided in London until 1952, when Lord Leconfield died, and they moved into Petworth House. In 1963, her husband was created Lord Egremont in Macmillan's retirement honours list, reviving an old family title. In 1967, he became the 6th Baron Leconfield in 1967 (the title having passed rapidly through two uncles and onto his father). He died of cancer in 1972, aged 52.
In 1978, she handed over the running of Petworth to their elder son, Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont (also known as the author Max Egremont), and moved to the family estate of Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria, where she restored the interiors and rejuvenated the gardens, and kept her house in Pimlico, London.
They had two sons and a daughter, Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen.
Pamela Wyndham, Lady Egremont (née Wyndham-Quin; 29 April 1925 – 4 November 2013) was a British society hostess and traveller, who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, before marrying her cousin John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont. Early life. She was born Pamela Wyndham-Quin on 29 April 1925 at 66 Oxford Terrace, Paddington ...
Hace 1 día · Pamela (née Wyndham-Quin), Lady Egremont. (1925-2013), Society beauty and châtelaine of Petworth House; wife of 1st Baron Egremont; daughter of Hon. Valentine Wyndham-Quin. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Pamela (née Wyndham-Quin), Lady Egremont (1925-2013), Society beauty and châtelaine of Petworth House; wife of 1st Baron Egremont; daughter of Hon. Valentine Wyndham-Quin. Sitter in 1 portrait.
