Alvilde Lees-Milne [SEP] date of death
Alvilde Lees-Milne
Alvilde Lees-Milne ("née" Bridges; 1909–1994) was a British gardening and landscape expert.
Personal life.
Born in 1909, she was the daughter of the Governor of South Australia (1922–27) Lt.-Gen. Sir (George) Tom Molesworth Bridges by his wife Janet Florence Menzies, and was the great-niece of Robert Bridges, the one-time Poet Laureate.
She met James Lees-Milne, who became her second husband, during World War II while she
Milne having found her collapsed on the pathway of their Badminton home. Her death left him deeply depressed.
External links.
- James Lees-Milne and Alvilde Chaplin
- Lees-Milne Alvilde Chaplin life