Evening star., 1948-05-14
Kennedy
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widow of a Marques killed in the
war four months after their Lon
don marriage. The Earl, 81, had
chartered the plane.
Former Ambassador Kennedy,
Boston business man, was in Paris
at the time of the crash, about
S:15 pm.
The death OF Lady Harrington
and Lord Fitzwilliam was confirmed
in London by Sir Drummond Inglis,
a director of Skyways, Ltd.
The plane company said the ship
was chartered by Lord FitzWilliam,
a Grenadier Guards captain. He
was a prominent race horse owner
and breeder and the eighth early in
his line, the Skyways said crew
members killed in the crash were
Capt. P. A. Townshend and Radio
Officer A. F. Freeman.
Lady Harrington was a sister
Of Representative Kennedy, Demo-
crat, of Massachusetts,. At one
time she worked as secretary and
writer on the staff of the Washing
ton Times Herald. A sister, Miss
Eunice Kennedy, works at the JUS
tice Department.
Her father said he had mo plans" :"
when asked if he would go to the
scene of the accident.
The text of the Skyways an
nouncement said:
THE directors regret to announce
that their Dove aircraft Gahou,
which left lie Bourget at 2:20 pm.
GMT yesterday, May 13, crashed
near Privas, 40 kilometers southwest
OF Valence, at about 6:15 pm. GMT
while bound for Cannes. All the
passengers and crew were killed.
The passengers were Lady Harting-
ton and Lord Fitzwilliam. The crew
were Capt. P. A. Townshend and
Radio OfIicer A. F. Freeman"
The sudden death of the pretty
and viVacious daughter Of The for
mer Ambassador completed trilogy
Of tragedy for the wealthy and So
cially prominent Boston family. Mr..
Kennedy was the father Of nine
children, four girls and five boys.
Met Marques in 1888.
Lady Harrington met the Mar
guess in 1888 while her father was
Ambassador to London. He was
heir to the Duke of Devonshire.
Their wedding took place May 6,
1914, at the Chelsea Register Once.
She was serving as resident helper
at Red Cross club at the time.
Little more than four months
later, on September 10, her husband
was killed in action In France while
serving as a captain in the Cold
stream Guards.
Son Also Killed.
A few weeks before that, on Au-
gust IA, the Kennedy family had
been notified by the Navy Depart
ment that Joseph, jr., ~, had been
killed in an operational flight over
Europe.
Lady Harrington was in Washing
ton a few weeks ago to see her
brother and sister. With their
mother, the three Kennedy children
spent a week end at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va. Lady Harrington
sailed for Europe on the queen
Mary a few days later.
Representative Kennedy was IN
touch with other members OF his
family TODAY to work out funeral
arrangements.
Cousin Takes Title.
Lord Fitzwilliam's family traces
back to before Norman conquest
times. Besides his widow, the for
mer Miss Olive Plunkett OF Ire
land, the early is survived by a
daughter. Lady Anne. born in 1885,
Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitz
liam, "a, a cousin. inherits the title.
The Fitzwilliam family seat at
Rotterdam, one of the largest
houses in Britain, has $50 rooms,
but only 80 are in use. When the
earl married in 1888. he took 600
tenants of his fathers vast York
shire estate to Dublin for the cere-
mony in two steamers.
Lord Fitzwilliam was chairman OF
the Race Horse Owners Association
in 1946. Before the war he was a
prominent owner and won the 1885
Gimcrack Stakes. For two seasons
he was master of the Derwent fox
hounds in the North Riding.
Lord Fitzwilliam was one OF the
richest British peers. A few years
before the war, his fathers income
was estimated unofiicially at about
$4,000 a day. When he died in 1913,
his father left fl,S2o, 900 (s5.280, ,OoO.
The Earl's widow is a younger
daughter OF the late Hon. and Most
Rev. Benjamin J. Plunket, wealthy
bishop OF Meath. Ireland, in the
Church Of England. She inherited
$500 900 t$3,2oo ,00O) from the Irish
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