daughter of the late Philip Harding and Alice Astor Pleydell-Bouverie. Emily grew up in New York City and in Rhinebeck with her brother, Ivan Obolensky, and her sisters, Sylvia Guirey (nee Obolensky) and Romana McEwen (nee von Hofmannsthal). In 1963 she married the architect, Michael Zimmer, son of the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer. Their son Jacob was born in 1967.Later she married Eric Glanbard. Then, after a particularly long and happy engagement, she married the artist Clark Murray in 2017. An accomplished horse rider and trainer, Emily was a strong presence at the Southlands Foundation, the renowned Rhinebeck horse riding school. She was a natural scholar, and in later life she returned to school and threw herself with characteristic determination into studies: after gaining her master's degree asa special student at Vassar College, she was accepted into a PhD program at Columbia.She relished her work under the mentorship of Professor David Cannadine, and enjoyed several months spent intently researching at the British Library in London. After the completion of her dissertation, titled Political Thought in the British Caribbean, 1750-1785, she received her doctorate in 2007, an achievement which gave her enormous pleasure and of which, although she wouldn't admit it, she was justifiably proud. Sweet, loyal, generous and with a wry sense of humor, she will be greatly missed.
daughter of the late Philip Harding and Alice Astor Pleydell-Bouverie. Emily grew up in New York City and in Rhinebeck with her brother, Ivan Obolensky, and her sisters, Sylvia Guirey (nee Obolensky) and Romana McEwen (nee von Hofmannsthal). In 1963 she married the architect, Michael Zimmer, son of the Indologist Heinrich Zimmer. Their son Jacob was born in 1967.Later she married Eric Glanbard. Then, after a particularly long and happy engagement, she married the artist Clark Murray in 2017. An accomplished horse rider and trainer, Emily was a strong presence at the Southlands Foundation, the renowned Rhinebeck horse riding school. She was a natural scholar, and in later life she returned to school and threw herself with characteristic determination into studies: after gaining her master's degree asa special student at Vassar College, she was accepted into a PhD program at Columbia.She relished her work under the mentorship of Professor David Cannadine, and enjoyed several months spent intently researching at the British Library in London. After the completion of her dissertation, titled Political Thought in the British Caribbean, 1750-1785, she received her doctorate in 2007, an achievement which gave her enormous pleasure and of which, although she wouldn't admit it, she was justifiably proud. Sweet, loyal, generous and with a wry sense of humor, she will be greatly missed.
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