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Born Cynthia Blanche Curzon at Kedleston Hall, she was the second daughter of Hon. George Curzon (later Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) and his first wife, Mary Victoria Leiter, an American department-store heiress. As the daughter of an Earl (and later a Marquess), she was styled Lady Cynthia beginning in 1911.
Mary Victoria Leiter, 1887 by Alexandre Cabanel. Mary Victoria Leiter was born in Chicago, the eldest daughter of Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the wealthy co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Field retail empire. On her father's side, she was of Swiss-German descent.
The wife of a missionary who was killed in a “violent, criminal attack” in Africa last week was arrested in connection to his death, his church announced.. Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes ...
The husband of a former Arizona teacher locked up for sexually abusing her 13-year-old student vigorously defended his wife in the days leading up to her 2018 arrest — and even pressed the ...
Even unrelated to Colman, Thelma Raye displayed erratic behaviour. In November 1927 she was arrested in Chicago when she appropriated an unattended taxi and set it on fire by forgetting to release the handbrake. [46] Raye has been called a "vicious person", an "evil and vindictive woman" [47] that was jealous of her husband's success. [48]
The ex-wife of a prominent Los Angeles doctor – gunned down in an ambush-style attack outside his clinic in August – was arrested and charged with his murder as police raided her home.
Lady Alexandra joined the Save the Children Fund in 1950 and was very active in fund-raising in London. In 1955, she and her husband divorced and she became a member of the fund's governing council. Later she would become chairman of the Overseas Relief and Welfare Committee, which controls all overseas work of the fund.
As U.S. Magistrate Judge Teresa J. James began to go over the charges, she said she wasn’t going to read the details of every count: “We’d be here all day if I did that.”