Prudence Glynn

The Right Honourable
The Lady Windlesham
Portrait by Deirdre Daines
Born
Prudence Loveday Glynn

(1935-01-22)22 January 1935[1]
Kensington, London
Died24 September 1986(1986-09-24) (aged 51)[1]
Kensington, London[2]
Other namesPrudence Hennessy
Occupation(s)Fashion editor; author
Notable creditFellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1974)[2]
Spouse
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(m. 1965)​

Prudence Loveday Glynn, Baroness Windlesham (22 January 1935 – 24 September 1986), was a British fashion journalist and author, best known for her long-running role as the first fashion editor of The Times.

During her 15 years presiding over the fashion pages of one of the UK's leading national newspapers, she charted huge changes in the fashion scene as it moved from couture formality to young Swinging London designers and the rise of high-street brands. She championed new designers and was an influential commentator about the way the industry operated, also holding a number of advisory roles outside journalism.[1]

Glynn – known as Lady Windlesham in private life – was a formidable character. Her obituary in The Times described her as a figure who was "feared and respected rather than loved".[1] A response a few days later in The Times, from her former secretary and assistant Sandra Barwick presented a different perspective. Barwick described Glynn as unfailingly kind and generous and added: "She was profoundly bored by the pompous and splendidly contemptuous of received opinion – an unusual characteristic in a fashion editor."[3]

  1. ^ a b c d "Prudence Glynn". The Times. No. 62573. 26 September 1986.
  2. ^ a b Pimlott Baker, Anne. "Glynn, Prudence Loveday". oxforddnb. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ Barwick, Sandra (4 October 1986). "Prudence Glynn". The Times. No. 62580.