A Pilgrimage to Nejd

Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth (1837-1917), known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder, with her husband the poet Wilfrid Blunt (1840-1922), of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo. From the late 1870s, Wilfrid and Lady Anne travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East, buying Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen and the Egyptian Ali Pasha Sherif. To this day, the vast majority of purebred Arabian horses trace their lineage to at least one Crabbet ancestor. Lady Anne travelled extensively in the Middle East, and is particularly noted as the first European woman to ride through the Arabian desert to reach the city of Ha'il.