Son of Reginald Partridge and his wife Jessie Margaret. Until 1919 he used his birth name, Reginald Sherring Partridge, and then adopted the name Ralp.
The artist Dora Carrington was in love with Lytton Strachey, who loved Ralph Partridge, an ex-army officer; Partridge loved Strachey, but married Carrington to stabilise their triangular relationship.
In 1924, they set up home together at Ham Spray House, a nineteenth century farmhouse outside the village of Ham, in Wiltshire, along with Ralph's lover (and later wife) Frances Marshall (1900-2004.)
Strachey died of stomach cancer at Ham Spray House in January 1932. Carrington, who saw no purpose in a life without Strachey, committed suicide two months after his death by shooting herself with a gun borrowed from her friend, Hon. Bryan Guinness (later 2nd Baron Moyne.) Her body was cremated and the ashes buried under the laurels in the garden of Ham Spray House.
The Partridges had a son, Burgo, and continued to live at the house for almost 30 years, entertaining a roll-call of artists and writers, among them E.M. Forster and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Frances sold the house a year after Ralph's death in 1961, insisting that it did not become a shrine to the Bloomsbury Group.
Son of Reginald Partridge and his wife Jessie Margaret. Until 1919 he used his birth name, Reginald Sherring Partridge, and then adopted the name Ralp.
The artist Dora Carrington was in love with Lytton Strachey, who loved Ralph Partridge, an ex-army officer; Partridge loved Strachey, but married Carrington to stabilise their triangular relationship.
In 1924, they set up home together at Ham Spray House, a nineteenth century farmhouse outside the village of Ham, in Wiltshire, along with Ralph's lover (and later wife) Frances Marshall (1900-2004.)
Strachey died of stomach cancer at Ham Spray House in January 1932. Carrington, who saw no purpose in a life without Strachey, committed suicide two months after his death by shooting herself with a gun borrowed from her friend, Hon. Bryan Guinness (later 2nd Baron Moyne.) Her body was cremated and the ashes buried under the laurels in the garden of Ham Spray House.
The Partridges had a son, Burgo, and continued to live at the house for almost 30 years, entertaining a roll-call of artists and writers, among them E.M. Forster and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Frances sold the house a year after Ralph's death in 1961, insisting that it did not become a shrine to the Bloomsbury Group.
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