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About Florence Darell
Biography
http://www.thepeerage.com/p30095.htm#i300950
Florence Leavitt was the daughter of Henry M. Leavitt.2 She married, firstly, Lt.-Col. Sir Horace George Proctor-Beauchamp, 6th Bt., son of Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Bt. and Hon. Catherine Esther Waldegrave, on 15 November 1892.2 She married, secondly, Lt.-Col. Harry Francis Darell, son of Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell and Amy Schuster, on 12 August 1915.1 She and Lt.-Col. Sir Horace George Proctor-Beauchamp, 6th Bt. were divorced in 1915.2 She died on 2 June 1931.1
http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_ramsbury_d0540.htm
The photograph is rather unclear, so here is a transcription.
- To the memory of Florence Darell daughter
- of H. J. Leavitt of New York. Born at Torquay 12th
- November 1873 Died 2nd June 1931. She received
- the Medaille de la Reine Elizabette for her
- services to the Belgians in the Great War.
- The perfect wife of Lt. Colonel Harry Francis
- Darell D.S.O., J.P. for the county of Wilts who
- served in the Rifle Brigade in the N.W. frontier war of 1897
- commanded the 16th St. Pancras Battn. the Rifle
- Brigade in the Great War from April 1915 to July 1917 and
- received the D.S.O. for gallentry in action at the Battle of
- the Somme 1916 and a sword of honour from the citizens of
- St. Pancras - was born the son of Edward Darell at Fretherne
- Glos. 18th Aug 1872 and died 20th July 1934.
- Near this Darell Chapel their ashes lie.
References
- "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC2-WJCP : 16 April 2019), Leavitt in entry for Leavitt, Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom, 19 Nov 1873, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .
- BARONET GETS DIVORCE.; Sir Horace Proctor-Beauchamp Obtains Decree -- Wife a New Yorker. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. Feb. 2, 1915. Link “ LONDON, Feb. 1. -- Lady Proctor-Beauchamp, formerly Miss Florence Leavitt, daughter of the late H.M. Leavitt of New York, was the defendant today in a divorce case brought by her husband, Sir Horace Proctor-Beauchamp, Bart, who named Capt. Harry F. Darell as co-respondent. ...”
- http://www.townsley.info/Strangeway/GedSite/g1/p654.htm#i32651
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Florence Darell's Timeline
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November 19, 1873
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Exeter, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
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June 2, 1931
Age 57
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Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
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