Marchioness of Queensberry

The February 18 1927 edition of the Toronto Daily Star had a photo of the Marchioness of Queensberry, who was inspecting the portraits that she had painted that were hung in an art gallery in New York:

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Cathleen Mann (1896-1959) had been the Marchioness of Queensberry for a little less than a year when this photo was taken. She went on to become a costume designer for a number of films between 1933 and 1937, and became an official war artist, painting portraits of Allied commanders. She and the Marquis divorced in 1946, and she committed suicide in 1959.

Her Wikipedia page states that she saved many lives in the West Ham district of London during the war by commandeering transport to carry people to safety. Which is more than many of us have done, to be honest.

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