Lois Sturt

Lois Ina Morgan, Viscountess Tredegar (née Sturt, 25 August 1900 – 18 September 1937) was one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s. Later the lover of the Earl of Pembroke and the Duke of Kent, she married Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar.

Biography Lois Ina Sturt was born on 25 August 1900. She was the daughter of Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington, and Lady Feodorowna Yorke. She attended the Slade School of Art and scandalizing society, she opened her own art studio in Chelsea. Wyndham Lewis said she was "the most beautiful debutante of her day" and Barbara Cartland said she was "fiery, impetuous, and with dark, flashing eyes."

1920 – "Portrait of the Hon. Lois Sturt" by Ambrose McEvoy (Crudwell, Wilts, 1878–1927, London). Oil on canvas She was one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s. She was among the founders of the notorious all-night treasure hunts. She was fined for having driven her car at 51 miles an hour through Regent's Park at 2 o'clock in the morning. She had told the arresting officer, "But I must get there, I must get there before someone else finds the next clue." Her close friends were: Tallulah Bankhead, Poppy Baring, Lady Victoria Bullock, Barbara Cartland, Madame Louis Cartier, Gladys Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Mona Dunn, Hon. Diamond Hardinge, Sonia Keppel, later Hon. Mrs Roland Cubitt, Anita Leslie, Eleanor Smith, Viola Tree. Dubbed as "bacchante", she drank a lot and partied even more. She was one of the few female racehorse owners of her day. Moreover, she was an accomplished dancer and a fully trained pilot. Even if she was a trained artist, she became an actress, one of the first of the Bright Young Things to make it. In 1921, she played a court lady in The Virgin Queen (Lady Diana Cooper played Queen Elizabeth I) and in 1922 she was Nell Gwyn in The Glorious Adventure, the first British colour film. They separated in 1936.

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