Lois Sturt

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Lois Sturt was born on August 25, 1900 in More Critchell, Dorset, England. She was an actress, known for Le carillon de minuit (1922), The Glorious Adventure (1922) and Amour (1922). She was married to Evan Morgan 2nd Viscount Tredegar. She died on September 18, 1937 in Budapest, Hungary.

Daughter of Humphrey Napier Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington (1859-1919) and Lady Feodorowna Yorke (1864-1934). Sister of Napier George Henry Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington (1896-1940), she was also an artist and miniature painter.

Lois Sturt, Wild Child: A Glance at Hon. Lois Ina Sturt, Viscountess Tredegar (by William Cross (Author):

Lois Sturt the flapper of all flappers. The book is a 25,000 word narrative on the life and times of Hon. Lois Ina Sturt ( 1900-1937), daughter of the 2nd Lord and Lady Alington of Crichel House, Dorset, England. Lois was the first wife of the eccentric Evan Morgan, Viscount Tredegar. The short book contains many images and dozens of anecdotes on Lois, a girl who flew too close to the sun.

From the age of the flapper, with vivid yarns of those Bright Young Things comes the poignant tale of British high society wild child, the Honourable Lois Ina Sturt, a dazzling, single minded,one-off personality who was dead by the age of 37. Sibling of the enigmatic, hedonistic peer Lord ‘Naps’ Alington, the family pile was the magical Crichel Estate in Dorset. The blond, tubercular Naps was matched only in devil may care attitude by his younger sister Lois, a delectable, quixotic creature,an accomplished actress and dancer, a clever painter who studied at the Slade School of Art and had her own art studio in Chelsea. She also became a successful race horse owner and breeder of Great Danes. But Lois’ story is largely untold. She was deemed “fast” and “high-spirited”: Lois wanted to knock the stuffing out of convention and achieved this by engaging in several long love affairs, generally with older, married men. She was for four years the lover of the much older Reggie Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, and an intimate around the string of unapproved-of good-time girls chasing Prince George, the ill-fated Duke of Kent. In 1928 Lois entered into an arranged, madcap marriage de convenance with the homosexual Hon. Evan Frederic Morgan, heir to the Viscount Tredegar and died suddenly in Budapest in 1937, a victim of long years of alcohol abuse and insane slimming treatments. Author of previous titles on several forgotten Society figures of the 1920s and 1930s, William Cross presents all the humorous anecdotes, coupled with fascinating, yet often sad facts on the boisterous life and times of Evan Morgan’s first wife Lois, Viscountess Tredegar. Incredibly, Lois may boast a blood connection to the current heir to the British throne.