Diana (née Bridgeman), Lady Abdy; Hubert John Duggan

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Diana (née Bridgeman), Lady Abdy; Hubert John Duggan

possibly by Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Moyne (née Erskine)
bromide print, circa 1934
2 3/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (61 mm x 105 mm) image size
Given by Martin Plaut, 2014
Photographs Collection
NPG x183315

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John Venning

01 May 2017, 22:25

This is taken in the gardens of Newton Ferrers, Callington, Cornwall: one of the unique sets of granite balustrades illustrated in Country Life articles on the house, and in Gertrude Jekyll's Garden Ornament, is visible in the top left of the image, as is one of the two lead statues of classical heroes situated in the third terrace section of the gardens.
Hubert Duggan was a great friend of Evelyn Waugh who stayed regularly in the house from an early stage of the Abdys' ownership (1934>). Waugh's letters/diaries do not mention Duggan being there at the same time as himself.