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MRS. AVERILL RATTRAY DIES IN EAST AFRICA; Daughter of Lord Furness Wed Her Father's Chief Big Game Hunter at Nalrobi in 1932.
Jan 31, 2021 · What became of poor Mrs Averill Rattray? The story goes that she secluded herself alone in the bush and drank herself to an early death, on 6 January 1936. This is recounted by Gloria Vanderbilt in her book Double Exposure .
The romance of Hunter Rattray and the Hon. Averill began in London last year when he arrived with two live zebras that Lord Furness wanted.* But Lord Furness was too busy with large affairs to notice a surreptitious courtship.
She died on 28 February 1921, aboard the Furness yacht Sapphire off the coast of Portugal, while recovering from an operation and was buried at sea. [9] She and Lord Furness had two children: Hon. Averill Furness (22 July 1908 – 1936); she married, in 1932, Andrew Rattray, 1882–1933.
LONDON, Jan. 30. -- The Hon. Averill Furness, daughter of Lord Furness, shipping financier, by his first wife, was married to Andrew Rattray, noted East African hunter in charge of the...
Jan 29, 2020 · Averill Furness died in Africa in 1936, also just 27, after a brief but romantic marriage to a white hunter, Andrew Rattray. Both children predeceased their father. Averill's story is especially poignant.
The Hon. Averill Furness, 23-year-old daughter of Viscount Furness, shipbuilding tycoon, and Andrew Rattray, her father's so-year-old professional hunter, found it so one evening last month as...
