Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch
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Alice Harriet Blosse-Lynch (* July 17, 1844 in Bombay; † September 19, 1919, in Normandy) was the daughter of the irish baronet Henry Blosse-Lynch. On August 10, 1867 she married the german banker Adolf Wilhelm Kessler in Paris. On May 23, 1868, that was also the birthplace of their first child Harry Graf Kessler, who later became an important sponsor of art, diplomat and aesthete. His younger sister Wilma Kessler, married Wilma de Brion, was born in 1877 and became godchild of the German Emperor Wilhelm I..
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- Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach (search for Alice Kessler)
- Neue Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 11, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1977, entry on "Harry Graf v. Kessler", p. 545-546 (article by Hans-Ulrich Simon).