Person:Mary Goelet (1)

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Mary Goelet
b.1878
d.1937
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  1. May Goelet1878 - 1937
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m. 10 Nov 1903
  1. George Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of Roxburghe1913 - 1974
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Name[1] Mary Goelet
Alt Name[2] May Goelet
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1878
Marriage 10 Nov 1903 to Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe
Death? 1937
Reference Number Q6779647 (Wikidata)


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Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (born Mary "May" Goelet; October 6, 1878 – April 26, 1937)[1] was an American-born heiress and socialite who married into the British aristocracy.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mary Goelet, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord. (New York: Workman Publishing, 1989).

    May was a great catch (with a dowry of more than $20,000,000), and at one point the reprobate 9th Duke of Manchester announced his engagement to her as a way of calming his creditors. Roxburghe was a fitting match for May; a cousin of the 9th Duke of Marlborough (husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt), he carried Queen Alexandra’s crown at the coronation. They lived mostly in Scotland; she redecorated Floors, where the current Duke and Duchess of York became engaged, in the style that largely remains. An heir was finally born in 1913 (to the putative disappointment of Anna Breese, married to the younger brother Lord Alastair Innes-Ker). Having inherited her mother’s box in the Diamond Horseshoe at the Metropolitan Opera House, May often visited New York after the Duke’s death in 1932.

  3.   Mary Goelet, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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