About Lydia Tritton
Lived 1899 – 1946 (aged 46). Lydia Tritton was an Australian journalist.
Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон), 19 September 1899 10 April 1946) was an Australian journalist, poet, and self-declared "public elocutionist". Her parents, Fred Tritton, was a prominent Brisbane furniture warehouseman.
Personal life In 1928, Tritton married a former officer of Russia's White Army, Nicholas Alexander Nadejine, then 43-years-old, at the marriage registry office in Kensington, England. Nadejine was a professional singer, but was unsuccessful in joining the Covent Garden Opera Company and reportedly had affairs with various wealthy Englishwomen.
Death and legacy In February 1946, while visiting her parents in Brisbane, Tritton had a stroke and died of chronic nephritis on 10 April.
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Who was Lydia Tritton?
Australian journalist (1899-1946)
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Lydia Tritton was born on 19 September 1899.
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Lydia Tritton died on 10 April 1946.
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Lydia Tritton was a journalist.
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Lydia Tritton was Australian.
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· DBpedia: Lydia Ellen Tritton
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