Eleanor Souray, Lady Torrington
Eleanor Nellie Souray (1886 - 1931), Lady Torrington. A popular stage actress and Gaiety girl, she was a number of performers who married into the peerage during the Edwardian era, meeting George Master Byng, 9th Viscount Torrington at the races in Ostend. The couple's marriage soon soured and they divorced. After running a stud farm and then opening the Vortex club in Soho, Nellie was in serious debt and killed herself by leaving a gas ring on in her flat in December 1931
Picture No
13449337
Media ID
46782507
Size
4006px x 6120px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Bassano in The Tatler', 5 October 1910, page 5
Date
1910
