Ancestral Trails 2016 » Diana Caldwell (1913-1987)

Personal data Diana Caldwell 


Household of Diana Caldwell

She is married to Thomas Pitt Hamilton CHOLMONDELEY.

They got married on March 26, 1955, she was 41 years old.


Notes about Diana Caldwell

Diana, Lady Delamere was the daughter of Josiah Seymour Caldwell and Marjorie Howell.

Born Diana Caldwell (1913-1987), she moved to the Happy Valley in late 1940, together with her new husband, Sir John "Jock" Delves Broughton, a Baronet with extensive landed estates in England. She almost immediately began a very public affair with the unofficial leader of the community, Joss Hay, Earl of Erroll. She planned to divorce Broughton and marry Erroll. Broughton supposedly gave his blessings.

Erroll was discovered murdered in his car in January 1941. Broughton was charged with his murder but was acquitted in the trial. Diana stood up for her husband, but after the trial accused him of being the murderer and abandoned him. She has been speculated by writers to have either covered for Broughton, worked as his accomplice in the murder or been the murderer herself. Other writers have also claimed that she was promiscuous, a closeted lesbian and that she shot three of her lovers on various occasions.

Following her divorce from Broughton, she married Gilbert Colvile in 1943, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in Kenya and inherited much of his fortune. They adopted a daughter. Years later, Diana married Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere, and increased her land fortune. For many years in the 1960s and 1970s and until the death of her lesbian lover, Diana lived in a three-way relationship with her husband and Lady Patricia Fairweather (daughter of the 2nd Earl of Inchcape).By the time of Delamere's death, she was possibly the most powerful white woman in Africa, dubbed the "White Queen of Africa."
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Valley_set#Diana,_Lady_Delamere

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Historical events

Birthday December 23, 1913

  • The temperature on December 23, 1913 was between -0.6 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • May 29 » Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
    • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
    • July 12 » Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
    • August 16 » Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
    • December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
    • December 23 » The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

Day of death September 3, 1987

  • The temperature on September 3, 1987 was between 13.2 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1987: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
    • February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
    • May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
    • May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
    • May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
    • June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
    • December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).


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