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Alvilde Lees-Milne (née Bridges; 13 August 1909 – 18 March 1994) was a British gardening and landscape expert.
Alvilde Lees-Milne died of a stroke at Essex House on 18 March 1994. She was survived by her husband, James, and her daughter, by her first marriage, Clarissa (Chaplin) Luke. James Lees-Milne died of cancer 3 years later.
Alvilde Bridges, gardener and writer: born London 13 August 1909; married 1933 Anthony, 3rd Viscount Chaplin (died 1981; one daughter; marriage dissolved), 1951 James Lees-Milne; died...
Alvilde became seriously ill in 1992, and Lees-Milne devoted the next two years of his life to caring for her. She died suddenly in 1994, James Lees-Milne having found her collapsed on the pathway of their Badminton home.
Alvilde Bridges was the only child of the Lt.-Gen. Sir George Thomas Molesworth Bridges, the Governor of South Australia from 1922 to 1927, and his wife, Janet Florence Menzies. She was married on January 9, 1933, to the Hon. Anthony Freskin Charles Hamby Chaplin, the future 3rd Viscount Chaplin.
Alvilde Lees-Milne (née Bridges) (1909-1994), Gardening and landscape expert; former wife of 3rd Viscount Chaplin, and later wife of James Lees-Milne; daughter of Sir Tom Bridges. Sitter in 4 portraits.
1968-75: By the late 1960s, JLM and Alvilde had achieved a modus vivendi, living as a devoted couple at Alderley, yet leading separate lives. In his sixties, he finally began to achieve recognition as a man of letters outside the field of architecture.
