Clough Williams-Ellis

Writer and activist AWE was of English heritage and lived most of her life in Britain. Her paternal relatives, the Stracheys, remain well-known for their cultural, political, and military pursuits, and she herself became involved...

Amabel Strachey (soon to be AWE ) and architect (Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis became engaged.

Amabel StracheyAmabel Williams-Ellis married architect and town planner(Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis ; he was also at this time a Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards .

Clough Williams-Ellis became eminent as an architect, and particularly as the creator of Portmeirion, a model Italianate village on the coast of North Wales that he inaugurated in 1926 (though he was still building...

Clough Williams-Ellis (knighted in 1972) died on 8 April 1978, after sixty-three years of marriage to AWE .

At Portmeirion SJ enjoyed the friendship of both Williams-Ellises, Clough and his wife Amabel (née Strachey). She later wrote warmly of her affection for Amabel, though she said that in the early stages of their...

In a wide-ranging and social life JM met innumerable people whose names are household words or very near it. Some neighbours in Wales whom she got to know were the poet R. S. Thomas and...

AWE became Lady Williams-Ellis when her husband, architect and town planner Clough Williams-Ellis , was knighted.

About three years after her husband's death, AWE published a biography of him: Clough Williams-Ellis : A Portrait in Words.

She and Meic Stephens had first seen the house in August 1989: a building of Queen Anne appearance, with some parts dating from more than a century earlier, once owned by David Lloyd George ...

A tea-party at the London studio of architect Clough Williams-Ellis (probably hosted by him and his wife AWE ) was held to discuss possible legal support of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness.

With her husband, architect and ex-soldier Clough Williams-Ellis , AWE published an official history of The Tank Corps.

SJ did not remain solely at Heathfield throughout the war. Like Vera Brittain , she took rooms in London in Portland Place: while Brittain wote England's Hour (published in 1941 and dedicated to Jameson)...

AWE and her architect husband jointly published The Pleasures of Architecture, a handbook of architectural appreciation for intelligent laymen.

With her husband and children, AWE published In and Out of Doors, a book of stories and games for young people.