{"id":390,"date":"2012-11-17T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T10:49:11","slug":"october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to his unhappy marriage, Edward Bulwer Lytton\u2019s two children spent much of their early lives with and Irish \u201cgodmother\u201d, a saintly spinster named Mary Letitia Greene.\u00a0 Mary died in Dublin in 1859 and the Lytton family\u2019s only subsequent contact with the Greene family was in the 1880s when Mary\u2019s great-niece visited Knebworth to give Robert, Edward\u2019s son, Mary\u2019s fascinating written account of his and his sister\u2019s childhood.\u00a0 This is a treasured document in our archive and for over ten years I have been on the trail of Mary Letitia Greene, looking for more information about this woman who played such an important part in the lives of my great-great-grandfather and his sister.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I struck gold.\u00a0 Tracing Mary\u2019s family tree on the internet, I discovered a descendant of her great-niece living half-an-hour away in Northwood, Middlesex.\u00a0 Contact was made, and for the first time in over 120 years, I have been able to formally welcome the Greene family back to Knebworth House.\u00a0 Better still, I have been able to identify the woman in the lovely portrait miniature they had in their possession, not knowing who the woman was\u2026 as none other than Mary Letitia Greene.\u00a0 Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Knebworth House website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knebworthhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.knebworthhouse.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to his unhappy marriage, Edward Bulwer Lytton\u2019s two children spent much of their early lives with and Irish \u201cgodmother\u201d, a saintly spinster named Mary Letitia Greene.\u00a0 Mary died in Dublin in 1859 and the Lytton family\u2019s only subsequent contact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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