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Damian Elwes. Cary Elwes. Website. tessakennedydesign .com. Tessa Georgina Kennedy (born 6 December 1938) is a British interior designer, whose clients include multi-national corporations, royalty, celebrities, and European hotels, restaurants, and clubs. Her elopement with society portrait painter Dominick Elwes made headlines in 1957.
- 1940–present
- Interior designer
- 6 December 1938 (age 84), Guildford, England
May 26, 2021 · On 27 November 1957 at the High Court in London, Justice Sir Ronald Roxburgh issued a restraining order against Dominick Elwes. The decree stipulated that should he marry Tessa without the Court’s consent, he must go to prison. Tessa and Dominick refused to wait around for the lawyers’ decision.
Dominick was the grandson of Gervase Cary Elwes (1866–1921), a diplomat and professional classical tenor, and Lady Winifride Mary Elizabeth Feilding, daughter of the 8th Earl of Denbigh. Dominick was a nephew of the English novelist, biographer and journalist Nancy Mitford, [1] and a godson of Evelyn Waugh. One of his cousins was the 3rd ...
- Paintings, elopement scandal
- Amberley, West Sussex
- Simon Elwes (father)
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Born in 1960, to heiress and interior designer Tessa Kennedy and the husband she eloped with at 17, Mayfair-set artist Dominic Elwes, Damian's childhood was bohemian and star-studded.
Elwes was born in London into a family of artists. His father Dominick Elwes and grandfather Simon Elwes were portrait painters. Both died when Elwes was fifteen and left him easels and brushes. His mother was the interior designer and socialite Tessa Kennedy. He has two brothers, Cary Elwes, an actor, and Cassian Elwes, an independent film ...
Cary Elwes. Actor: Saw. Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London, England, the third son of interior designer/shipping heiress Tessa Georgina Kennedy and the late portrait painter Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes. He is the brother of producer/agent Cassian Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He was raised in London and attended Harrow. After graduating from Harrow, he moved to the US and studied drama ...
Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London, England, the third son of interior designer/shipping heiress Tessa Georgina Kennedy and the late portrait painter Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes. He is the brother of producer/agent Cassian Elwes and artist Damian Elwes. He was raised in London and attended Harrow.
