On 17th August 1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was born.
In 1869 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [aged 28] and Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth [aged 31] were married. She the daughter of William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace [aged 63] and Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace.
On 6th February 1873 [his daughter] Judith Blunt-Lytton 16th Baroness Wentworth was born to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [aged 32] and [his wife] Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth [aged 35]. She married 1899 Neville Bulwer-Lytton 3rd Earl of Lytton, son of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1st Earl and Edith Villiers Countess Lytton, and had issue.
In 1883 Jane Morris nee Burden [aged 43] met the poet and political activist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [aged 42] at a house party given by her close friend, Rosalind Frances Stanley Countess Carlisle [aged 37] who would become Countess of Carlisle in 1889. At sometime after, probably around 1887, they had commenced a relationship.
On 29th December 1893 [his father-in-law] William King Noel 1st Earl Lovelace [aged 88] died. His succeeded son [his brother-in-law] Ralph King-Milbanke 2nd Earl of Lovelace [aged 54] succeeded 2nd Earl Lovelace, 2nd Viscount Ockham of Ockham in Surrey, 9th Baron King of Ockham in Surrey.
In 1899 [his son-in-law] Neville Bulwer-Lytton 3rd Earl of Lytton [aged 19] and [his daughter] Judith Blunt-Lytton 16th Baroness Wentworth [aged 25] were married. He the son of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1st Earl and Edith Villiers Countess Lytton [aged 57].
In 1906 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [aged 65] and Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth [aged 68] were legally separated as a consequence of the numerous mistresses he had taken which included Jane Morris nee Burden [aged 66], Catherine Walters aka "Skittles", his cousin Mary Wyndham [aged 43] and, possibly, her mother Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell.
On 28th August 1906 [his former brother-in-law] Ralph King-Milbanke 2nd Earl of Lovelace [aged 67] died. His succeeded brother Lionel King 3rd Earl of Lovelace [aged 41] succeeded 3rd Earl Lovelace, 3rd Viscount Ockham of Ockham in Surrey, 10th Baron King of Ockham in Surrey. His succeeded son Ada King-Milbanke 14th Baroness Wentworth [aged 35] succeeded 14th Baron Wentworth, 18th Baron Despencer.
On 18th June 1917 Ada King-Milbanke 14th Baroness Wentworth [aged 46] died. His succeeded aunt [his former wife] Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth [aged 79] succeeded 15th Baroness Wentworth, 19th Baroness Despencer.
On 15th December 1917 [his former wife] Anne King-Noel 15th Baroness Wentworth [aged 80] died. Her succeeded daughter Judith [aged 44] succeeded 16th Baroness Wentworth, 20th Baroness Despencer.
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On 10th September 1922 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [aged 82] died.
During the 1870s and 1880s, the John Hungerford Pollen and Maria Margaret La Primaudaye rented Newbuildings Place in Shipley, Sussex from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, a childhood friend of the La Primaudaye family.