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| Picture No | 12775668 |
| Date | 1923 |
| Description | A group at Murray's including Lady Idina Gordon |
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A group at Murray's River Club in Maidenhead, Jack May's outpost of his Beak Street club in London's Soho. From left, Jack Gordon, the Countess of Munster, Miss Olga Lynn (famous singing teacher), Dick Wyndham, Lady Idina Gordon and Count Munster. Lady Idina Gordon was the elder daughter of the late Lord De La Warr. After her first marriage to Euan Wallace, Idina married Captain Charles Gordon in 1919 and for some time after their marriage lived in British East Africa. She divorced Gordon and married Josslyn Hay, Earl of Errol in 1923. Five-times married Idina would gain notoriety as part of the Happy Valley Set when she moved to Kenya in 1924 with her third husband, Josslyn Hay, Earl of Errol. With her serial marriages and reputation for debauched decadence, she inspired the character of 'The Bolter' in Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and the character Iris Storm in The Green Hat by Michael Arlen.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in ‘The Tatler’, 18 July 1923, page 100 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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