Ada Lovelace grandchildren: Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth

Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, better known as Lady Wentworth, was a British noble, Arabian horse breeder, and actual tennis player who lived from 6 February 1873 until 8 August 1957.

Her influence on Arabian horse breeding was substantial as the proprietor of the Crabbet Arabian Stud from 1917 to 1957, with over 90% of all Arabian horses in the world today holding lines to Crabbet bloodstock in their pedigrees.

Judith Blunt-Lytton Early life and family

Judith was the poet Wilfrid Blunt’s only surviving child with Lady Anne, a daughter of William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace and his wife, the celebrated mathematician Ada Lovelace.

As a result, she was Lord Byron’s great-granddaughter.

Judith spent most of her infancy in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East, as her parents travelled to buy Arabian horses for their Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and their Sheykh Obeyd stud in Cairo.

Judith Blunt-Lytton Adult Life

Judith married Neville Stephen Lytton, the Earl of Lytton’s youngest son, on February 2, 1899. The couple married in Cairo and moved into a mansion on the grounds of her parents’ estate, Crabbet Park, near Crawley, which was laden with relics of Judith’s great-grandfather, Lord Byron.

Noel Anthony Scawen (1900–1985), Anne (later known as Lady Anne Lytton) (1901–1979), and Winifred (later known as Lady Winifrid Tryon) (1904–1985) were the couple’s three children.

In 1923, the couple became estranged and divorced. Lady Wentworth never remarried, focusing instead on administering Crabbet Park until her death.