This Picture Shows Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan ( left) and Hon. Lois Ina Sturt (right) in 1928 suitably dressed for a political meeting in London's East End. Both these members of that band of Bright Young people who were also involved in local and national politics. Lois was a notable actress, dancer as well as a gifted public speaker. The images below are of Lois Sturt, one is the painting of her by Society painter Ambrose McEvoy, the other is the front cover of Lois Sturt: Wild Child: A Glance at Hon. Lois Ina Sturt, Viscountess Tredegar by William Cross, published in 2014 . In 1928 Lois Sturt married Evan Morgan in an arrangment intended to draw a line under their chquered pasts. Both were involved in sordid affairs with men. In 1934 Evan inherited the title of Viscount Tredegar, Lois became his Viscountess. However Lois was living apart from Evan, she died in 1937, in Budapest, from heart failure. Lois Sturt the flapper of flappers simply burnt out.
VISCOUNTESS TREDEGAR The death occurred in Budapest, on September 18th, 1937 of Lois Ina Sturt, Lady Tredegar. The youngest daughter of the second Lord Alington by Lady Feodorowna Yorke, youngest daughter of the fifth Earl of Hardwicke, Miss Lois Sturt was born on August 25th, 1900, and was received into the Catholic Church the day before her marriage to the Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan, at the Brompton Oratory, on April 21st, 1928. Gifted with considerable artistic and literary ability, she studied at the Slade School. She was also an accomplished public speaker, and in 1927, together with her brother, Napier ( Naps) 3rd Lord Alington, stood unsuccessfully in Shoreditch for the London County Council. Lady Tredegar, whose husband was received into the Church in 1919 and succeeded his father as second Viscount Tredegar in 1934, had no children.
Below is a sketch ( impression) of Lois Sturt
by 11-year-old Nikki Prakel
Lois Sturt, Wild Child : A Glance at Hon. Lois Ina Sturt, Viscountess Tredegar
New Book By William Cross : Now Available £8.00 Post Free UK
From the age of the flapper, with vivid yarns of those Bright Young Things comes the poignant tale of British high society wild child, the Honourable Lois Ina Sturt, a dazzling, single minded,one-off personality who was dead by the age of 37. Sibling of the enigmatic, hedonistic peer Lord ‘Naps’ Alington, the family pile was the magical Crichel Estate in Dorset. The blond, tubercular Naps was matched only in devil may care attitude by his younger sister Lois, a delectable, quixotic creature,an accomplished actress and dancer, a clever painter who studied at the Slade School of Art and had her own art studio in Chelsea. She also became a successful race horse owner and breeder of Great Danes. But Lois’ story is largely untold. She was deemed “fast” and “high-spirited”: Lois wanted to knock the stuffing out of convention and achieved this by engaging in several long love affairs, generally with older, married men. She was for four years the lover of the much older Reggie Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, and an intimate around the string of unapproved-of good-time girls chasing Prince George, the ill-fated Duke of Kent. In 1928 Lois entered into an arranged, madcap marriage de convenance with the homosexual Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan, heir to the Viscount Tredegar and died suddenly in Budapest in 1937, a victim of long years of alcohol abuse and insane slimming treatments. Author of previous titles on several forgotten Society figures of the 1920s and 1930s, William Cross presents all the humorous anecdotes, coupled with fascinating, yet often sad facts on the boisterous life and times of Evan Morgan’s first wife Lois, Viscountess Tredegar. Incredibly, Lois may boast a blood connection to the current heir to the British throne. ISBN 10 1-905914-31-8 and ISBN 13 978-1-905914-31-9
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