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The End of the Lindsay Era and the Beginning of the War Years in the Embassy’s Gardens

March 1, 2014 · by · in Beatrix Farrand, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Elizabeth Cameron, Frederick Brooke, Lady Lindsay, Lord Lothian, Marquess of Lothian, Massachusetts Avenue, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Stepleton House · Leave a comment

Ronald Lindsay retired from the British Ambassadorship in Washington and set sail for England on 30 August 1939, landing just after war was declared on Germany. Elizabeth Lindsay never saw her husband again. His work and failing health confined him to his country for the duration. He died in 1945 and was buried next to […]

Before their Washington Gardens: Americans in Paris

January 9, 2014 · by · in Beatrix Farrand, British Embassy Gardens, Dumbarton Oaks, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Cameron, Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, Henry Adams, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Robert Woods Bliss, Stepleton House · 2 Comments

Even before her marriage to the diplomat Ronald Lindsay, Elizabeth Hoyt occupied the same worldly and cultivated social spheres as her close friends and future neighbors in Washington, Robert and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks. Along with Hoyt’s aunt Elizabeth Cameron and the historian Henry Adams, they were bound by friendships formed in Paris and […]