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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.
Curzon had three daughters from his first marriage to Mary Victoria Leiter, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston: Mary Irene, Lady Ravensdale (born 20 January 1896); Cynthia Blanche (born 23 August 1898), the first wife of Sir Oswald Mosley; and Alexandra Naldera (born 20 April 1904), the wife of Edward Dudley Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and ...
Upon being arrested, investigators seized “significant assets” including bank accounts totaling more than $70m, four luxury vehicles, more than $500k in gold bars, coins and jewelry, two ...
The parents of a Utah woman accused of murdering her husband after he confronted her about an affair have been arrested for allegedly helping her clean up the crime scene.. Thomas Ray Gledhill, 71 ...
David Phillip Turner is accused of firing at least 42 shots at Crimea Malita Baker and Sean Lange while her four children — three of whom were also Turner’s — hid in their home for hours.
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.
The Countess of Suffolk, 1910. Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter was born in Chicago on 1 September 1879. She was the third daughter and youngest of four children born to Mary Theresa (née Carver) and Levi Ziegler Leiter, the co-founder of Field and Leiter dry goods business, and later partner in the Marshall Fields retail empire.