Iris Veronica, Lady Wedgwood, (née Pawson; 1887 – 17 February 1982) was a British author of novels and non-fiction works on the topography and history of England.
[5] Other friends of the couple with whom she maintained a correspondence were the writer Joseph Conrad and the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Vaughan Williams (a second cousin and lifelong friend of Ralph Wedgwood) wrote to him on hearing of his engagement to Iris: I am so glad... You have everything to make a wife happy for ever and ever—you have everything in you which cries out for it.
[4]Very early in their marriage, Vaughan Williams stayed at the Wedgwoods' home in Northumberland with his colleague Cecil Sharp, and in 1944 Iris and Ralph became the tenants of Vaughan Williams' childhood home, Leith Hill Place near Holmbury St Mary in Surrey.
She first met Joseph Conrad in 1913 through his friend Richard Curle who was staying at Stonefall Hall, the Wedgwoods' house near Harrogate.