Enid Hamilton-Fellows

Enid Margaret Hamlyn Hamilton-Fellows, Claude Kinnoull, Countess of Kinnoull (1904–1985) was an English philanthropist, converted Catholic nun, photojournalist and artist. Born in London into a prominent and wealthy family, she married George Hay, 14th Earl of Kinnoull in 1923. She led an adventurous life in high society, racing cars and flying airplanes, before Hay's bankruptcy led her to leave him in 1925. After the divorce became official in 1927, Hamilton-Fellows left England and settled in Paris, where she converted to Catholicism. She travelled as a missionary through Africa in the early 1930s.

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Hamilton-Fellows travelled to Spain and worked under the pseudonym Claudek as a photographer for the Nationalists, capturing over 800 photographs of the war and its aftermath. In a return to Paris, she worked briefly with the British Secret Services and the Deuxième Bureau to resist the Nazi invasion of France and expose Communist agents, but was soon forced to flee to the United States. She settled in Carmel, California, where she was friends with Langston Hughes, Una Jeffers, Robinson Jeffers and other Californian social elites.

In Carmel, Hamilton-Fellows was a cofounder of the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies. She was named a Grand Dame d'Honneur of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, an officer of the Order of Leopold II, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, among others.