Ethel Kibblewhite

Ethel (Dolly) Kibblewhite (1873[1]–1947[2]) was the host of an important artistic and literary salon in London in the 1910s.

They moved to Storrington in West Sussex where Gilbert became the manager of a dairy farm which his father had bought for him.

On one occasion when they were separated, Gilbert arrived at his father in law's house at Rustington where Ethel had sought refuge from him and demanded to see her.

[1] He returned during World War One with an Australian army regiment and he and Ethel met to discuss a divorce.

[5] Her father ran his business, Ward & Hughes, Ecclesiastical Stained Glass Manufacturers, from one floor of the house, the rest was family accommodation.

He and Kibblewhite became lovers and they spent the summers together at Rustington with the children but Hulme never lived at Frith Street and he never stopped chasing other women.

[6] Kibblewhite was at Charing Cross Station when his friends said goodbye to Gaudier-Brzeska before he left for France where he was killed in action.

[7] In 1930, Kibblewhite was a witness in a case brought by Jacob Epstein against a London gallery which he alleged had been selling works which they attributed to him but which he had not made.