1920 - 1997 (76 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
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Father |
Edward Kenelm Digby, b. 1894, England |
Mother |
Hon. Constance Pamela Alice Bruce, b. 14 Jun 1895 |
Married |
1 Jul 1919 |
England |
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Family |
Living |
Children |
| 1. Living |
| 2. Living |
| 3. Living |
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Father |
Admiral Robert St. Vincent Sherbrooke, b. 8 Jan 1901, Oxton, Nottinghamshire |
Mother |
Rosemary Neville Buckley |
Married |
1929 |
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Family |
Living |
Children |
| 1. Living |
| 2. Living |
| 3. Living |
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Father |
Edward Kenelm Digby, b. 1894, England |
Mother |
Hon. Constance Pamela Alice Bruce, b. 14 Jun 1895 |
Married |
1 Jul 1919 |
England |
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1894 - 1964 (70 years)
Birth |
1894 |
England |
Died |
1964 |
England |
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Father |
Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby, b. 1846 |
Mother |
Emily Beryl Sissy Hood |
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Family |
Hon. Constance Pamela Alice Bruce, b. 14 Jun 1895 |
Married |
1 Jul 1919 |
England |
Children |
+ | 1. Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
+ | 2. Living |
| 3. Living |
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1895 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
14 Jun 1895 |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Baron Henry Campbell Bruce, b. 19 Jun 1851, Duffryn |
Mother |
Constance Mary Beckett |
Married |
10 Feb 1880 |
St.George's, Hanover Sq. |
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Family |
Edward Kenelm Digby, b. 1894, England |
Married |
1 Jul 1919 |
England |
Children |
+ | 1. Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
+ | 2. Living |
| 3. Living |
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1911 - 1968 (57 years)
Birth |
28 May 1911 |
London, Middlesex, England |
Died |
6 Jun 1968 |
England |
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Father |
Prime Minister Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, b. 30 Nov 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire |
Mother |
Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, b. 1885 |
Married |
12 Sep 1908 |
St. Margaret's, Westminster, London, England |
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Family 1 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
Married |
4 Oct 1939 |
St. John's, Smith Square |
Divorced |
1946 |
Children |
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Family 2 |
Momo Marriott |
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Family 3 |
June Osborne |
Married |
Nov 1948 |
Divorced |
1961 |
Children |
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Father |
Randolf Federick Howard Spencer-Churchill, b. 28 May 1911, London, Middlesex, England |
Mother |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
Married |
4 Oct 1939 |
St. John's, Smith Square |
Divorced |
1946 |
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Family 1 |
Baroness Mary Caroline d' Erlanger |
Children |
+ | 1. Marina Spencer-Churchill |
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Family 2 |
Luce Danielson |
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Family 3 |
NN Engelen |
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1904 - 1982 (77 years)
Birth |
17 Aug 1904 |
Died |
08 Feb 1982 |
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Father |
William Payne Whitney, b. 20 Mar 1876 |
Mother |
Helen Hay, b. 1875 |
Married |
1902 |
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Family 1 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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Family 2 |
Betsey Cushing, b. 18 May 1908, Baltimore |
Married |
1 Mar 1942 |
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Family 1 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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Family 2 |
Babe Cushing, b. 1915 |
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1904 - 1965 (61 years)
Birth |
1904 |
Died |
1965 |
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Family |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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1921 - 2003 (81 years)
Birth |
12 Mar 1921 |
Torino, Piemonte, It |
Died |
24 Jan 2003 |
Torino, Piemonte, It |
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Father |
Edoardo Agnelli, b. 2 Jan 1892, Verona |
Mother |
Marchesa Virginia Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, b. 24 May 1899, Roma, Latium, Italia |
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Family 1 |
Anita Ekberg, b. 29 Sep 1931, Malmö, Skåne, Sweden |
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Family 2 |
Linda Christian |
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Family 3 |
Danielle Darrieux |
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Family 4 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
Married |
1948 |
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Family 5 |
Living |
Children |
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1917 - 2007 (90 years)
Birth |
29 May 1917 |
Died |
6 Aug 2007 |
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Father |
Baron Robert Philippe de Rothschild, b. 1880 |
Mother |
Gabrielle Beer, b. 1886 |
Married |
1907 |
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Family 1 |
Liliane Fould-Springer, b. 11 May 1916, Paris, Île-de-France, Fr |
Married |
7 Oct 1941 |
Children |
+ | 1. Living |
+ | 2. Living |
| 3. Living |
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Family 2 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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1911 - 1960 (48 years)
Birth |
13 Jun 1911 |
Torino, Piemonte, It |
Died |
12 May 1960 |
Paris, Île-de-France, Fr |
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Father |
Aga Khan Muhammad Shah, III, b. 2 Nov 1877 |
Mother |
Cleope Teresa Magliano, b. 1889 |
Married |
1908 |
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Family 1 |
Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, b. 22 Apr 1908 |
Married |
18 May 1936 |
Paris, Île-de-France, Fr |
Divorced |
1940 |
Children |
+ | 1. Living |
| 2. Prince Amyn El Husseni |
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Family 2 |
Rita Hayworth, b. 17 Oct 1918, Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York |
Married |
27 May 1949 |
Divorced |
26 Jan 1953 |
Children |
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Family 3 |
Ann |
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Family 4 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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Family 5 |
Thelma Morgan, b. 23 Aug 1904, Luzern, CH |
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1909 - 1996 (86 years)
Birth |
3 Jul 1909 |
Athína, Elláda |
Died |
16 Apr 1996 |
Zürich, CH |
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Father |
Spyros Niarchos, b. 1858 |
Mother |
Eugenia Coumandaros |
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Family 1 |
Helen Sporides |
Married |
1930 |
Divorced |
1931 |
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Family 2 |
Melpomene Capparis |
Married |
1939 |
Divorced |
1947 |
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Family 3 |
Eugenia Livanos, b. 1927 |
Married |
1947 |
Divorced |
1965 |
Children |
| 1. Living |
| 2. Living |
+ | 3. Living |
+ | 4. Living |
| 5. Constantine Niarchos, b. 1962 |
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Family 4 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
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Family 5 |
Charlotte Ford |
Married |
1965 |
Divorced |
1967 |
Children |
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Family 6 |
Eugenia Livanos, b. 1927 |
Married |
1967 |
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Family 7 |
Athina Stavrou Livanos, b. 1926 |
Married |
1971 |
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Family 8 |
Living |
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Family 9 |
Living |
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Family 10 |
Living |
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1902 - 1971 (69 years)
Birth |
1902 |
Nebraska City, Nebraska |
Died |
18 Mar 1971 |
Haywire |
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Father |
Col. William Hayward |
Mother |
Sarah Ireland |
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Family 1 |
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, b. 12 May 1907, Hartford Co., CT |
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Family 2 |
Margaret Sullavan, b. 19 May 1911, Norfolk, VA |
Married |
1936 |
Divorced |
1947 |
Children |
+ | 1. Living |
| 2. Brigid Hayward |
| 3. Billy Hayward |
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Family 3 |
Nancy Gross, b. Salinas, California |
Married |
1941 |
Divorced |
Yes, date unknown |
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Family 4 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
Married |
4 May 1960 |
Carson City, Nevada |
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1891 - 1986 (95 years)
Birth |
1891 |
New York City, NY, USA |
Died |
26 Jul 1986 |
Arden, Westchester County, New York |
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Father |
Edward Henry Harriman |
Mother |
Mary Williamson Averell |
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Family 1 |
Marie |
Children |
+ | 1. Kathleen Harriman, b. 07 Dec 1917 |
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Family 2 |
Pamela Beryl Digby, b. 20 Mar 1920, Farnborough Park |
Married |
27 Sep 1971 |
New York City, NY, USA |
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Name |
Pamela Beryl Digby [1, 2] |
Relationship | with Francis Fox
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Birth |
20 Mar 1920 |
Farnborough Park [2] |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
5 Feb 1997 |
Paris, Île-de-France, Fr [2] |
Siblings |
2 Siblings |
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Person ID |
I39749 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
31 Mar 2002 |
Family 5 |
Giovanni Agnelli, b. 12 Mar 1921, Torino, Piemonte, It d. 24 Jan 2003, Torino, Piemonte, It (Age 81 years) |
Marriage |
1948 |
Last Modified |
20 Aug 2004 |
Family ID |
F39117 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 9 |
Leland Hayward, b. 1902, Nebraska City, Nebraska d. 18 Mar 1971, Haywire (Age 69 years) |
Marriage |
4 May 1960 |
Carson City, Nevada |
Last Modified |
20 Nov 2001 |
Family ID |
F32372 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 10 |
Governor William Averell Harriman, b. 1891, New York City, NY, USA d. 26 Jul 1986, Arden, Westchester County, New York (Age 95 years) |
Marriage |
27 Sep 1971 |
New York City, NY, USA |
- Pamela had a reputation as a party girl and had many liaisons, one of them being with W. Averell Harriman, while he was still married. When Averell's wife died, he and Pamela linked up again; they were married 30 years after their earlier affair.
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Last Modified |
20 Nov 2001 |
Family ID |
F32373 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Marriage - 27 Sep 1971 - New York City, NY, USA |
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 | Death - 5 Feb 1997 - Paris, Île-de-France, Fr |
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Notes |
- Pamela Digby was born to an aristocratic family in England and was determined to marry well.
Aged seventeen, Pamela Digby was sent to a boarding school in Muenchen and later maintained that, in the six months spent there, she was introduced to Adolf Hitler by Unity Mitford. In 1939 she went to work at the Foreign Office in London, doing translations from French for which she was paid £ 6 a week.
While being shown the flat she was going to rent, the phone rang. When she answered, it was Randolph Churchill who asked her out to dinner. Within ten days they were engaged and a week later they were married. With the exception of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Randolph's parents, everybody was against the marriage. One reason for the objections was their lack of money, to which Winston remarked: "Nonsense! All you need to be married is champagne, a double bed and a box of cigars!" However, married life began on the wrong footing when Randolph, wanting to improve her education, began to read in bed to her Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Hilaire Belloc would have been fine, she maintained, but Gibbon was too much.
When Pamela became pregnant, to be close to a doctor she went to live with her parents-in-law at 10 Downing Street, where she spent many nights in the air-raid shelter. On 8 October 1940 Randolph took his seat in the House of Commons and two days later their son, Winston, was born.
In 1941 Randolph went with the army to Africa; but while on board the ship taking them there, he gambled and lost £ 3,000. From Cape Town he sent Pamela a telegram which shattered their marriage. Never having been in debt before her marriage, she was already worried about bills, debts and people threatening to sue for payment; now she had to find another £10 per month to pay off this debt. Accordingly, she sold all her wedding presents and took a £12-a-week job at the Ministry of Supply. Pregnant again but, with all the tension, she miscarried. She paid off the debts but security in her marriage was gone.
When Averall Harriman, a representative of the American President, was introduced to her they started an affaire. Pamela regarded him "the most beautiful man I had ever set eyes on". When he had to go to Cairo, it was Randolph who showed him around Egypt. In July 1941 when Harriman returned to England, Randolph asked him to take a letter to Pamela in which he jokingly referred to Harriman as his rival in her affection. It took until 1942 before Randolph realised what was going on. He then had a furious row with his father as he maintained that his parents had condoned Pamela's affaire. After this his mother banned him from their home for the rest of the war, fearing Winston might have a seizure.
At the suggestion of Brendan Bracken, Pamela established a social club to enable professional men and women from the U.S.A. and Canadian forces, while off duty in London, to meet their British counterparts. As agreed, after the war in 1946 Pamela and Randolph divorced. Pamela then moved to Paris and her son spent his school holidays with his grandparents. In 1948 she began a five-years affaire with Gianni Agnelli which would be the happiest period of her life.
Then Baron Elie de Rothschild came into her life and, as he was married, discretion was required. She spent much of her time learning about art, history, techniques of wine-making and furniture. However, this relationship did not last.
In 1959, in search of a husband, Pamela went to live in New York and, already having renewed their acquaintance, on 4 May 1960 married the Broadway producer, Leland Hayward. This prompted her remark: "Theatre and politics are alike; they're both made up of triumphs and disasters".
In the spring of 1971 she married Averell Harriman. who maintained that marrying Pamela had been the best thing he ever had done.
As Pamela Churchill Harriman she became involved in politics and created a fund-raising system which helped to return the Democratic party return to the White House. In her opinion, when Clinton was copying President Kennedy, "Where Jack Kennedy was born to power, Bill Clinton got there all by himself." In September 1992 she opened up her Virginia estate for a ten-thousand-dollar-a-head Day in the country for Clinton and Gore and raised $3.2 million. Many people were surprised when President Clinton appointed her U.S. Ambassador to France. In 1997 when she died President Clinton praised her as "one of the most unusual and gifted people I ever met".
Her last husband, a former New York governor and ambassador to Britain and the Soviet Union, got his bride interested in politics and the Democratic party, which during the Reagan years had lost its drive and its direction. She hosted dinner parties to mend her husband's party, with grace and skill.
"Almost anybody who was asked was going to come to one of the gatherings at her spectacular house," said political analyst Norman Ornstein. "She had an ability to attract people around her, and a willingness to try to be a catalyst for the Democratic party."
She spoke at the 1984 convention, supported the Michael Dukakis campaign and Al Gore's 1992 presidential campaign, then worked hard raising money -- $12 million -- for young governor Bill Clinton when he won the party's nomination.
Her reward for her constant support was the ambassadorship to France. According to former State Department official Richard Holbrooke, she was a natural for the post.
"She spoke the language, she knew the country, she knew its leadership. She was one of the best ambassadors that ever served the United States," he said.
Not many women could have journeyed so far -- from the English countryside to diplomat in Paris -- with a formal education that ended at the age of 16.
But, says historian Michael Beschloss, "She was very graceful, and graceful in a lot of different worlds," a woman just as able to move through Winston Churchill's world during a world war as to maneuver through diplomatic life in Paris.
- (Medical):While swimming in the pool at the Ritz Hotel as a part of her regular exercise, she had a stroke and drowned.
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- [S106] Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, (Henry Holt & Company, New York ,).
- [S14] Brian Tompsett, University of Hull Royal Database (England), (copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk).
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