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Name: ERROLL, Edith Mildred Mary Agnes 'Molly' Hay, Countess of Erroll
Nee: dau of Richard Watson Maude, formerly Mrs Ramsay-Hill
Birth Date: 3 Nov 1893 Chelsea
Death Date: 13 Oct 1939 Nairobi
Last Date: 1939
Area: Kiambu
Married: 1. In London 21 July 1910 Guy Salusbury Hughes (1882-1955); 2. In London 1924 Cyril Seys Ramsay-Hill (1890-1976); 3. In London 8 Feb 1930 Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll (1901-1941)
Children: 1. Kendrick Herbert Salusbury (1 Dec 1910-1 July 1943 on active service RAF, named on Malta Memorial, Valletta))
Book Reference: Debrett, Bur, Barnes, Web
General Information:
St. Paul's Church, Kiambu cemetery - Edith Mildred Agnes, Countess of Erroll, wife of the 22nd Earl of Erroll, who departed this life on the 13th day of October 1939, thy will be done.
Web - cause of death - apparently accidental overdose of alcohol, heroin and morphine
Web - known as Molly, daughter of Richard Watson Maude, a clerk at Crystal Palace, London. First married Guy Hughes in July 1910, separated after WWI - one son Kendrick. Moved to Cairo in 1922 where she met and later married Major Cyril Seys Ramsey-Hill and both moved to Kenya where she met Joss Hay (Lord Erroll)in about 1926 and with whom she ran away a couple of years later but not before Ramsey-Hill had publicly and infamously horse-whipped Hay at Nairobi train station as they made their escape. Hay and Molly married in London in February 1930 after which they returned to Kenya where they lived at Oserian, the house in 'Happy Valley' she received as a settlement from her previous husband. Lord Erroll was mysteriously shot to death a couple of years later. She is buried next to him in St.Paul's Churchyard, Kiambu, Kenya
Oxford DNB - Happy Valley - Erroll's second wife Mary whom he married for her money and encouraged to destroy herself using alcohol and intravenous heroin, was the daughter of a bankrupt clerk who had clawed her way to prosperity