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4 unusual facts about Iris Origo


Earl of Desart

His daughter Lady Sybil Cuffe was the mother of the writer Iris Origo through her first husband William Bayard Cutting.

Francesco di Marco Datini

Origo, Iris (1957): Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini.

Iris Origo

Origo was the granddaughter of William Bayard Cutting, her mother Lady Sybil Cuffe (daughter of Lord Desart, an Irish peer) having married the diplomat eldest son (also named William Bayard Cutting) of the rich and philanthropic New York family.

La Foce

The estate's late-15th-century villa was restored by Iris Origo and Antonio Origo in the 1920s.


Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943), married (1) 30 April 1901 William Bayard Cutting (Jnr.) (1878- 1910 of tuberculosis), son of William Bayard Cutting and then secretary to the US embassy to the Court of St. James's, by whom she had one daughter Iris Origo (1902–1988).


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