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Lady Anne was the daughter of Ada, Lady Lovelace and the granddaughter of Lord Byron. She was fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, a skilled violinist and a gifted artist who studied drawing with John Ruskin. Though the books Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates and A Pilgrimage to Nejd are attributed to her and were based on her journals, they were extensively rewritten by her husband. Her own voice comes through more clearly in Lady Anne Blunt: Journals and Correspondence 1878-1917, edited by Rosemary Archer and James Fleming and published in 1985. Archer also wrote, with Colin Pearson and Cecil Covey, the definitive book The Crabbet Arabian Stud: Its History and Influence.
Lady Anne's 1869 marriage to Blunt was not a happy one. Her many pregnancies produced a single surviving child, Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth. Lady Anne never ceased to grieve her miscarriages and the babies who died soon after birth. Though a fond father to Judith, Blunt made no secret of the fact that he would have preferred a son. He had many mistresses, often simultaneously, and when in 1906 he proposed to move his "adopted niece" Dorothy Carleton in to Crabbet Park, Lady Anne left him. The Crabbet Stud was split in two and Lady Anne moved to Sheykh Obeyd Garden near Cairo, a 32-acre apricot orchard the Blunts had purchased in 1882. There she spent the remaining years of her life.
After Lady Anne's death in 1917 and that of Wilfrid in 1922, the separated studs were reunited under Judith's management. Her decision to use the Polish stallion Skowronek remains controversial, but the stud at Crabbet Park survived and prospered for almost fifty years until in 1970 the property itself was bisected by a motorway. Judith sold Crabbet horses all over the world; famous modern studs like Al-Marah in America and Fenwick in Australia owe their existence to large-scale importations of her horses. In the 1970s the Crabbet lines fell out of favour, and many Arabian breeders turned instead to Egyptian, Polish, Russian and Spanish lines. Today most Crabbet breeders consider themselves preservationists, maintaining a small pool of high-percentage Crabbet horses in order to maintain their reputed qualities of wonderful temperament, beauty and extraordinary performance and soundness.