Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney

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Constance MacDonald FitzMaurice (Gilchrist)

Also Known As: "Connie Gilchrist", "The Gold Girl", "The Original Gaiety Girl", "The Child"
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Birthplace: Agar Town, St Pancras, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Death: May 09, 1946 (80)
Tythe House, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of David Gilchrist and Matilda Maria Gilchrist
Wife of Edmond Walter FitzMaurice, 7th Earl Of Orkney
Mother of Lady Mary Constance Hamilton Gosling (FitzMaurice)

Occupation: Child actress, dancer, and artist's model
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About Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Gilchrist,_Countess_of_Orkney

Connie Gilchrist (23 January 1865 – 9 May 1946) was a British child artist's model, actress, dancer and singer who, at a very early age, attracted the attention of the painters Frederic Leighton, Frank Holl, William Powell Frith and James McNeill Whistler, the writer and photographer Lewis Carroll and aristocrats, Lord Lonsdale and the Duke of Beaufort. She became a popular attraction on stage at the age of 12 in a skipping rope dance routine at London's Gaiety Theatre, where she was then engaged in Victorian burlesque and vaudeville throughout her formative years. Gilchrist, who became known as the "original Gaiety Girl",[1] had abandoned the stage by the time of her marriage in 1892 to Edmond Walter FitzMaurice, 7th Earl of Orkney.

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Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney's Timeline

1865
July 23, 1865
Agar Town, St Pancras, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1903
February 26, 1903
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1946
May 9, 1946
Age 80
Tythe House, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom