About Margaret Eleanor Crosby
Lived 1884 – 1943 (aged 58). Margaret Eleanor Crosby was a philanthropist and heiress.
Margaret Eleanor Crosby, Baroness Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall (April 25, 1884 – March 1, 1943) was an American heiress and philanthropist.
Early life Margaret Eleanor Crosby was the first daughter of Frances (Fanny) Kendall Schieffelin and Ernest Howard Crosby. She was born in Manhattan. She was Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby's only sibling, and she was the maternal grandchild of Henry Maunsell Schieffelin and Sarah Minerva (nee Kendall) Schieffelin.
Margaret Eleanor met Captain Vanneck, who was stationed with his regiment in India, at the Coronation Durbar in Delhi.
The couple had two daughters and two sons: Sarah Carola, Gerard Charles, Anne Margaret Theodosia, and Peter. Founding Melbourne’s oldest Kindergarten
Death Margaret Eleanor Crosby died in 1943 in London, soon after her home was bombed during a German airstrike in World War II.
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Margaret Eleanor Crosby was born on 25 April 1884.
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Margaret Eleanor Crosby died on 1 March 1943.
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Margaret Eleanor Crosby was a philanthropist and heiress.
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