Clough Williams-Ellis

Standard Name: Williams-Ellis, Clough
Used Form: (Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis
Used Form: Sir Clough Williams-Ellis

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Amabel 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...
Family and Intimate relationships Amabel Williams-Ellis
Clough Williams-Ellis (knighted in 1972) died on 8 April 1978, after sixty-three years of marriage to AWE .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Family and Intimate relationships Amabel Williams-Ellis
Amabel Strachey (soon to be AWE ) and architect (Bertram) Clough Williams-Ellis became engaged.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
47-9
Family and Intimate relationships Amabel Williams-Ellis
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 .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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Family and Intimate relationships Amabel Williams-Ellis
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...
Friends, Associates Storm Jameson
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...
Friends, Associates Jan Morris
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...
Leisure and Society Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE became Lady Williams-Ellis when her husband, architect and town planner Clough Williams-Ellis , was knighted.
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes.
Material Conditions of Writing Amabel Williams-Ellis
About three years after her husband's death, AWE published a biography of him: Clough Williams-Ellis : A Portrait in Words.
This is not listed among sources in the article on him in ODNB.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Occupation Gillian Clarke
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 ...
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
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.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
3: 555
Publishing Amabel Williams-Ellis
With her husband, architect and ex-soldier Clough Williams-Ellis , AWE published an official history of The Tank Corps.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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Residence Storm Jameson
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)...
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
Her completion of the novel was delayed and nearly prevented when she suffered a serious concussion; however, her friend Storm Jameson helped bring the text to publication by acting as proofreader and advisor.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.
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AWE
Textual Production Amabel Williams-Ellis
AWE and her architect husband jointly published The Pleasures of Architecture, a handbook of architectural appreciation for intelligent laymen.
qtd. in
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 559

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Texts

Williams-Ellis, Amabel et al. Headlong Down the Years. University Press, 1951.
Williams-Ellis, Susan et al. In and Out of Doors. Routledge, 1937.
Williams-Ellis, Clough, and Amabel Williams-Ellis. The Pleasures of Architecture. J. Cape, 1924.
Williams-Ellis, Clough et al. The Tank Corps. Published at the offices of Country Life Ltd. and by G. Newnes, 1919.