A WOMAN OF TALENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

A WOMAN OF TALENTS.

Lady Horne, who has met such a tragic death by drowning in tlie Scheldt, was a woman of many gifts (writes our London correspondent). Besides writing poems and short plays, she had a talent for colour-blending, which slie used very effectively in arranging her homo. The beautiful drawing-room of her Grosvenor Street house had a charming blue colour scheme, and there tlie rare specimens of old Chinese porcelain collected by Sir Allan Horne, who travelled a great deal in the East, were displayed to great advantage. In her new St. John’s Wood homo Lady Horne had had tli c nursery devoted to the Use of her little son Alistair painted a soft peach colour, with hangings of china bbie glazed cretonne patterned w’ith rosebuds. Lady Horne, whoso mother was Lord Greville’s sister, ami her father, a great-uncle of Lord Klnnoull’s, boro the unusual names of “Auriol” and “Sliarlie.”