Jacynth Ellerton

Jacynth Ellerton

The second wife of Michael Donaldson-Hudson

Jacynth Ellerton was born on the 12th December 1897 in Warmingham, Cheshire the younger daughter of the Rev. Francis George Ellerton and Serena Lucy Ward and died on the 3 November 1987 in London, aged 89 years old. Her grandfather, Rev. John Ellerton was the rector of Hinstock, Shropshire from 1872 until 1876. He wrote or translated eighty six or more hymns.

In 1925 she was employed as an illustrator for a book on the poets Shelley and Keats written by Guy Boas.

On the 6th April 1926 she married Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack in the Lady Chapel at Winchester Cathedral. Guy was the son of John and Jean Warrack and was born on the 8th February 1900 in Edinburgh. He was a composer, music educator and conductor. He died on the 12th February 1986 in Englefield Green, near Egham, Surrey. They had two children John Hamilton Warrack, born 9th February 1928 and Julia Mary Warrack, born 22nd June 1930.

After divorce from Guy Warrack, she married Michael Donaldson-Hudson, described as an insurance broker, at the Register Office, Kensington, London on the 4th May 1933. They were living at 21 Neville Street, London, SW7 until at least the time of the birth of their son Hugh Donaldson-Hudson at the London Welbeck Hospital on the 4th September 1936. Hugh is a film director, better known as Hugh Hudson, having directed the film Chariots of Fire, released in 1981

Jacynth was divorced from Michael Donaldson-Hudson in 1944.

She subsequently married Sir John Waldemar Lawrence in 1948.

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