Hilary Bardwell
Hilary "Hilly" Ann Bardwell, Lady Kilmarnock (21 July 1928 – 24 June 2010) was the first wife of Sir Kingsley Amis and the mother of Martin Amis, the English novelist.
She was the daughter of Leonard Sidney Bardwell, a Ministry of Agriculture official, and Margery M. Bradley-Clark. She had three elder brothers, William (b. 1915), Brian (b. 1918) and Roger (b. 1924) and a sister, Margaret (b. 1925), known as Miggy. She attended Bedales School and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.[1]
Bardwell was married three times, first to Kingsley Amis from 1948 to 1965, with whom she had three children, Philip, Martin, and Sally Amis, the latter of whom predeceased her in 2000 after years of alcohol abuse. Her second husband was D. R. Shackleton Bailey from 1967 to 1975, and finally she married Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock in 1977; they had one son, James, born in 1972. Boyd died in 2009.[2]
Toward the end of his life, Kingsley Amis lived with Bardwell and her third husband, writing his last seven novels in their London home, while Bardwell maintained the house and looked after him.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Amis, Kingsley. Memoirs. Penguin, 1992, p. xvi.
- ↑ Hilary Ann Bardwell, thepeerage.com, accessed 27 July 2010.
- ↑ "Hilly Kilmarnock ", The Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2010.
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