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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 Muthaiga, 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
Frances Osborne, The Bolter, 1908 White skin, green eyes, Titian hair and strong jaw gave her a classical beauty. Dark red lipstick and nail varnish lent her the air of an exotic who took an equal pleasure in her husband's esoteric artistic tastes. It was widely believed in Kenya that she had a fortune of £30,000 from which she derived an extraordinarily efficient income of £8000.
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.
Paul Spicer, The Temptress, 2010 She was often referred to as 'Miss Boots' because it was believed her fortune was from the chemist chain. The exact source of Mary's wealth is not known.