Olivia Madeline Grace Mary Wyndham[1] (30 November 1897 – 1967[2]) was a British society photographer and a member of the 1920s socialite group known as the bright young things.
(a member of the Souls, the group congregated at his parents' house, Clouds, in Wiltshire) and his wife Edwina Virginia Joanna, daughter of Rev.
[10] A photograph from this event was published in the newspaper The Bystander on 30 October 1929, capturing a number of attendees including Barbara Ker-Seymer, Mrs Dennis Pelly (née Elizabeth Ponsonby) and Hugh Wade.
She was introduced to Black society by heiress A'lelia Walker and met the actress Edna Thomas, with whom she was promptly infatuated.
In 1940, The New York Amsterdam News reported that Olivia was "one of Harlem's most colourful personalities whose future is all wrapped up in her adopted community.