Drummond-Hay, Grace Marguerite Hay, Lady, 1895-1946

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British journalist, Grace Marguerite, Lady Hay Drummond-Hay, was the first woman to travel around the world by air in a zeppelin. Although she was not an aviator herself at first, she contributed to the glamour of aviation and general knowledge of it, by writing articles about her aerial adventures for US newspapers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. During World War II, Lady Drummond-Hay and Hearst correspondent Karl von Wiegand were interned in a Japanese camp in the Philippines. When they were set free in 1943, she was ill and Karl suffered poor eyesight after a bomb blast. They returned to the United States on the Swedish rescue ship the SS Gripsholm in December 1943. Lady Drummond-Hay died of coronary thrombosis in the Lexington Hotel on 12 February 1946.
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referencedIn Papers of Doris Stevens, 1884-1983 (inclusive), 1920-1960 (bulk) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen papers, 1912-1994, (bulk 1927-1949). Claremont Colleges.Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library.
referencedIn Manifests of Outward Bound Alien Passengers, 1907–1948 National Archives at Philadelphia
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Place Name Admin Code Country
Liverpool ENG GB
Manhattan NY US
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Birth 1895-09-12

Death 1946-02-12

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