16 Dec 2004
Wife: Frieda Mary WICKSTEED Married name Tolstoy-Miloslovsky 1 died at age: 82
Born: 4 Nov 1915 at 3 Bath Terrace, Instow, North Devon
Died: Mar 1998 in Perpignan 2
Event: Autumn 1938 in probable first meeting with Patrick O'Brian 3
Occupation: Sep 1939 joined London Auxiliary Ambulance Service 4
Resided: Autumn 1942 in The Cottage, off Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea 5
Occupation: 1943 Political Warfare Executive 6
Father: Howard WICKSTEED
Mother: Frieda Mary HICKING
Other spouse 2
Husband: Dimitri Mihailovich, Count TOLSTOY
Married: 1934 at Appledore
Divorced: May 1942 in London 7
Born: 8 Nov 1912 in Moscow
Not living:
Education: Wellington School
Education: Trinity College Cambridge
Occupation: Barrister-at-Law
Occupation: 1959 QC
Resided: 1934 at Orpington 8
Description: 1936 45 Courtfield Road, Kensington 9
Father:
Mother:
M Child 1: Nikolai TOLSTOY age: 69
Born: 1935
Spouse: Georgina UNKNOWN b. 1950
F Child 2: Natasha TOLSTOY
Spouse: UNKNOWN
Sources:
(1) Shown as Wicksteed or Miloslovaska in Marriage Register to Richard
Russ.
(2) DK, 'In March 1998, Mary died in hospital in Perpignan', 389.
(3) NT, 223.
(4) NT, LAAS records do not preserve details of individual personnel .... the
likelihood that my mother volunteered shortly after the declaration of war in
September 1939. .... she chose Chelsea as the district in which to work. There
she was attached to Station No. 22 at 18 Danvers Street, where she was issued
with a uniform, gas mask, and steel helmet, and paid £2 for a six-day week. 241.
(5) NT, 261, 275.
(6) NT, In due course she joined him [Patrick] at Bush House. .... They served
together in the French Section, which was headed by Dr Leslie Beck, a scholar of
French literature. 279.
(7) NT, My father somehow discovered that the couple were living together, and on
May 12 1942 he tained a decree nisi in which Patrick was cited as co-respondent,
the divorce being declared absolute in November. 256.
(8) NT, My parents settled down in a picturesque fifteenth-century farmhouse at
Orpington in Kent, 221.
(9) NT, 221.
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