Aubrey Dean Paul
Sir Aubrey Edward Henry Dean Paul, bart.(19 October 1869-16 January 1961)[1] was a captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers and a descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough,[2]
He was fifth of the Paul Baronets, of Rodborough and father of Brenda Dean Paul, one of the ‘bright young things’.[3]
In 1901 he married Irene Regina,[4] daughter of Henry Wieniawski and Isabelle Bessie-Hampton.
The couple had been introduced by Nellie Melba. Lady Dean Paul, now adopted British nationality, but continued to publish works as "Irène Wieniawska"[5] They had two other children:
- Aubrey Donald Fitzwarren Severin Dean Paul (1902–04)
- Sir Brian Kenneth "Napper" Dean Paul, 6th Bt. (1904-72;[6] an amateur muralist and opium taker, whose portrait was painted by Lucian Freud)[7]
Dean Paul converted Roman Catholicism in 1914 and the couple's daughter was educated at convent schools. His wife maintained a Bohemian lifestyle and the couple separated in 1922.[3]
References
- ^ leighrayment.com
- ^ World Roots.com
- ^ a b Philip Hoare, ‘Paul, Brenda Irene Isabelle Frances Theresa Dean (1907–1959)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011
- ^ National Portrait Gallery
- ^ Manuel Couvreur, trans. Celia Skrine, Liner notes and texts for recording of Poldowski’s Verlaine songs by Élise Gabele and Phlippe Riga
- ^ Baronetage
- ^ Museum and Gallery Reviews