Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth

The Baroness Wentworth
Lady Anne Blunt, 1883
Personal details
Born
Hon. Anne Isabella King

(1837-09-22)22 September 1837
England
Died15 December 1917(1917-12-15) (aged 80)
Cairo, Egypt
Spouse
(m. 1869)
ChildrenJudith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth
Parents
Known for

Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth (née King, later King-Noel; 22 September 1837 – 15 December 1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, along with her husband the poet Wilfrid Blunt, was co-founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo. The two married on 8 June 1869. From the late 1870s, Wilfrid and Lady Anne travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East, buying Arabian horses from Bedouin princes such as Emir Fendi Al-Fayez[1] and the Egyptian Ali Pasha Sherif. Among the great and influential horses they took to England were Azrek, Dajania, Queen of Sheba, Rodania and the famous Ali Pasha Sherif stallion Mesaoud. To this day, the vast majority of purebred Arabian horses trace their lineage to at least one Crabbet ancestor.

  1. ^ Blunt, Lady Anne (31 December 2002). A Pilgrimage to Nejd, The Cradle of the Arab Race. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-0875-2.