Mary Lobb

Personal life Lobb was a Land Girl, or Land Army volunteer, in World War I. In 1917 Lobb met May Morris, who was living at Kelmscott Manor, which had been her father William Morris' country retreat. Morris had had two relationships with men that had failed before meeting Lobb. Lobb moved in, initially serving as a gardener. Lobb and Morris would spend the rest of their lives together. Lobb was known for wearing sturdy clothes, with a Norfolk jacket and knickerbockers. Evelyn Waugh described Lobb as a 'hermaphrodite' and George Bernard Shaw also described Lobb in negative terms. and Gwbert in Wales.

May Morris died in 1938, leaving £12,000 to Mary Lobb and tenure of Kelmscott Manor, where Lobb remained until her death the following year. Lobb donated the jewellery that Morris had left to her to Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and gave the city of Exeter her Icelandic artefacts which included a drinking horn.

Death Lobb died of heart disease on 27 March 1939.