Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Wyndham
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 30 January 1835
Place of birth: Dublin
Date of death: 8 March 1920
Place of death: 'Clouds' Salisbury
Category: collector
Identity:
She was the daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet of St Cross Mede and Hon. Pamela Fitzgerald. In 1960 she married Percy Scawen Wyndham, the son of 1st Baron Leconfield. They had five children: George (b. 1863); Guy Percy (b. 1865); Madeline (1869-1941), later Mrs Adeane; Mary Constance (b. 1862), later Lady Elcho; and Pamela (b. 1871), later Mrs Tennant; the daughters were known as the 'Three Graces' of the Souls.
Life:
Wyndham and his wife were the core of the bohemian group formed in the 1880s, known as the 'Souls'. The Countess of Warwick wrote: 'this little coterie of "Souls" loved literature and art, and perhaps were more pagan than soulful'. Burne-Jones was the painter closest to this aristocratic group. Madeline was a society hostess as well as patron of the arts. A portrait of her by George Frederic Watts was shown at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877.
The Wyndhams owned Nocturne: Grey and Gold - Westminster Bridge y145.
They lived at Clouds House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, which was designed by Philip Webb between 1881 and 1885 and decorated by Morris and Co. They also had a house in London, at 44 Belgrave Square.
Bibliography:
UK death and census records, Ancestry.com.
Abdy, J. and Charlotte Gere, The Souls, London, 1984; Who's Who, 1905; Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, 1896.
