page_title: Peter Ashmun Ames
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Ashmun Ames / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Millicent Orr-Ewing
context_page_description: Peter Ashmun Ames was an American British Army intelligence officer and member of the Cairo Gang who was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army.
context_section_description: Peter Ashmun Ames was engaged to marry Millicent Orr-Ewing, a niece of the Duke of Roxburghe and a close friend of Barbara Cartland, at the time of his death. Their engagement was announced in The New York Times the same day that Ames was assassinated. Ames' brother, Joseph Bushnell Ames, was a prolific novelist, and his aunt, Alice Alden Bushnell, married a son of the lawyer George Goelet Kip. The philanthropist Mary Warden Harkness, wife of Charles W. Harkness, was the first cousin of Ames' mother Eleanor.
caption: Ames' fiancée, Millicent Orr-Ewing
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