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Nancy Clara Cunard
1896 - 1965 (69 years)
Generation: 1
1. Nancy Clara Cunard was born on 10 Mar 1896 in Neville Holt Hall, Leicestershire; died on 17 Mar 1965 in Hopital Cochin, Paris, France; was buried in Paris, France. Notes:
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon—who were among her lovers—as well as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brâncuși, Langston Hughes, Man Ray and William Carlos Williams. MI5 documents reveal that she was involved with Indian socialist leader VK Krishna Menon. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her physical health deteriorated. When she died in the Hôpital Cochin, Paris, she weighed only 26 kg (57 pounds). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cunard
Nancy married Sidney George Fairbairn on 15 Nov 1916 in London, and was divorced in 1925. Sidney was born on 13 Oct 1892 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died on 19 Jan 1943 in London; was buried in Steventon, Basingtoke and Deane Borough, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]