Lucinda lambton autobiography sample

Self-confessed commoner Adam Brocklehurst explains how the aristocratic Lucinda Lambton has helped him see the world around him with new eyes. 

The great influences on our lives are usually relatives or friends. Occasionally they may be teachers or clerics who left a mark on us through their didactic enthusiasm or words of wisdom. But they are people we have actually come across, whom we have personally known, who move within our circles.

But in my case, a person who has greatly influenced my life was a woman I have never met, from a different world to my own, but who has opened doors in my mind that I didn’t know were there, let alone closed.

Lucinda Lambton, one of the more original architectural historians England has produced, is rather neglected nowadays. This wasn’t always the case and for a while she came perilously close to being that most British of institutions, a national treasure. For those of us of a certain age she was instrumental in not only fostering a lov