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Patricia Frances Mary Fielden Nemon-Stuart (née Villiers-Stuart)

(1910-1998), Wife of Oscar Nemon; daughter of Patrick Villiers-Stuart

Sitter in 2 portraits
Patricia Villiers-Stuart married the sculptor Oscar Nemon in 1944. She had been critically ill in hospital, and Nemon, upon discovering that a distant acquaintance, Sir Ernst Chain, was working on penicillin, rushed to Chain's home in despair. Penicillin was still at the laboratory stage, but Chain agreed to help Patricia. Nemon's diary recalls: 'He brought the penicillin in its test-tube straight from the laboratory [...] The treatment was carried out in the greatest secrecy, and it saved her life.'

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Aurelia Young

18 March 2021, 16:49

I am Aurelia Young, the daughter of Patricia Villiers-Stuart and Oscar Nemon. I can of course tell you as much as you would like to know. But here are a few facts. Patricia's mother was Constance Mary Fielden.
Patricia and Nemon had another daughter Electra (May) b. 1950
Falcon was born in 1941 and died in 2002
Aurelia b. 1943
Anna Scaharina was Ernst Chain's cousin