New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
Lady Randolph
Churchill Dies
After Operation
Heart Attack Following
Hemorrhage Caused Her
Death; Foot Had Been
Ampufated After Accident
Known in Society and Art
Was Formerly Miss Jennie
Jerome, of This City;'
Met Husband i'm Paris

LONDON, June 29.-Lady Randolph
Spencer Churchill, who was Miss Jennie
Jerome, of New York, died here to-day
She recently underwent an operation on
her righe foot, which was injured in a
fall down fight of steps. She mar
ried Lord Randolph Churchill, second
son of the seventh Duke of Mari
borough and one of England's most in
fluential political leaders Of his day,
in 1874.
Lady Randolph ChurchiIl's death
occurred from heart disease, following
a hemorrhage. Her son Winston
Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State
for the Colonies, was with her.
American and New Yorker by birth,
and always intensely American at
heart. Jennie Jerome was one of the
first and most noteworthy Of all the
brilliant line Of American women who
have become the wives of Englishmen
of distinction. AS Lady Randolph
Spencer Churchill, the name which she
continued to bear for most Of the
thirty-two years since her first hus-
bands death, she was known in so
ciety, art, literature, politics and
philanthropy on both sides of the
ocean.
Bern In New York
She was one Of the two daughters
Of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jerome, of
New York and Rochester. Both mar
ried English statesmen. the young
er, Clare, becoming the wife of the
eminent economist Mr.. Moreton
Frewen. Jennie Jerome YVES born in
this city in 1854. She and Lord Randolph
Churchill first met in Paris, whittier
she had gone with her father on one
Of his yachting tours around the world.
Lord Randolph aterward said to
friend, "That's the brightest woman
ever met and Pm going TO marry her"
Two weeks later they were engaged,
and within the year were married.
Readers of Winston S. Churchill's
biography of his father can realize how
close was the tie between Lord and
Lady Randolpb and how. grievous a
blow to her was his death, which oc-
Cured in 1895. She sought, however,
consolation in almost incessant activ-
ity in various worthy directions. She
was the founder and editor of The
Anglo-Saxon Review. During the Boer
war she organized a hospital corps,
fitted out a hospital ship, which she
named the Maine, and with it did great
service in South Africa.
Wed British Officer
Lady Randolph met her second hus-
band when they were both guests of
the Prince of Wales, afterward King
Edward VII, on his yacht at Cowes.
George Frederick Myddleton Cornwall
lis-West was then handsome young
man of twenty-sixy lieutenant in the
Scots Guards, noted athlete and
scion of one of the famous old fami-
lies of England. 1t is said that both
their families opposed the match and
that the Prince of Wales himself
sought to dissuade them from it, but
in vain.
They were married on July 28, 1900.
Within year there were rumors of
unhappiness, aud on January 22, 1918,
MIS- SOEnWalIiS w eSL u1SA d peLlCEOE
for restitution of conjugal rights"
which was the first step toward COM
plete divorce. The proceedings for
divorce followed in due time and the
final hearing was given in court on
July 15, 1913. The case was unde-
Tended and in just seven minutes
decree nisi was entered.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, an actress.
was married to Cornwallis~Wes a few
hours after the divorce nisi became
absolute.
During the war Lady Randolph gave
of her time and money to the develop
ment and improvement of war hospitals
in England. Her special interest among
these was the great hospital at Paign-
ton, Devonshire, to which she devoted
so much of her strength as a member
of the board that it is believed her
death was caused in part by that de-.
votion.
Lady RandoIph-she resumed her first
husbands name after the divorce from
Corvallis West-married third time,
in 1918, her husband being Montague
Porch, a member Of the faculty of
Oxford University, afterward a gov
ernment official in Nigeria, whem she
had met while she was engaged in hos
pital work during the World War.
one PupiAsneQ neI "reminiscences,
notably interesting book, in 1903, and
produced two successful plays, "His
Borrowed Plumes," in 1905, and "The
Bill" in 1912. She was for some time
engaged in the business Of decorating,
furnishing and leasing houses, which
she conducted with much success.
On June 10 her physicians found it
necessary TO amputate one of her feet
on account of her having broken the
ankle in fall on the stairway of a
country house where she was visiting.
1t was thought that she would make
good recovery from the operation,
but instead of rallying her strength
steadily declined.
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