Posts Categorized: Venetia Stanley

The Ditchley cousinhood, Venetia Stanley and another interwar restoration project

An idea to develop the potential historical links between gardens associated with three great granddaughters of the Victorian doyenne  and garden maker of Ditchley Park, Henrietta, Viscountess Dillon (d.1862): Venetia Stanley (later Lady Montagu) (1887-1948), Lady (Clementine) Churchill (later Baroness Spencer-Churchill) (1885-1977), and Lady (Mary) Trevelyan (1881-1966) mentioned in my 2019 lecture ‘Ditchley and Cliveden,… Read more »