Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay

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Grace Hay Drummond-Hay

Lady Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay (* 1. September 1895 in Liverpool , England as Marguerite Grace Lethbridge ; † 12. February 1946 in Manhattan , New York City , USA ) was a British journalist and the first woman in an airship , the Circled the earth.

Life

Grace Drummond-Hay was the daughter of Sidney Thomas Lethbridge and his wife Grace Emily Wilis. On June 9, 1920, at the age of 24, she married the state official Sir Robert Hay Drummond-Hay (1846-1925), 50 years her senior , who had previously been British consul in Essaouira and Stockholm and consul general in Tunis and Beirut . Drummond-Hay had four children from his first marriage, all of whom were considerably older than Grace. Five years later, when Lady Grace was 30 years old, her husband died. They had no children together.

Drummond-Hay shortly before the onward flight in Friedrichshafen with other journalists
Lady Drummond-Hay on board the "Graf Zeppelin"

She began to write articles for the British newspaper The Sphere and from the late 1920s worked for the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst . In 1928 she reported on the first transatlantic flight of a zeppelin for his newspaper Chicago's American . In the following year she was the only female traveler on board the airship Graf Zeppelin on its flight around the world. She was accompanied by her lover, the American journalist Karl von Wiegand , with whom she worked for many years. Upon her return to New York, she was hailed as a star. Wiegand, married father of one daughter , and Drummond-Hay initially separated after the trip, but later worked together again.

Drummond-Hay later continued her career as a war reporter in Abyssinia , today's Ethiopia, and worked as a foreign correspondent in Manchuria . During the Second World War , she and Wiegand were interned by the Japanese in Manila . Discharged in 1945 seriously ill, she died a year later in the Lexington Hotel in Manhattan. Wiegand transferred her ashes to her homeland in Great Britain .

A well-known and respected journalist in her day, she was forgotten after her death.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Time : Los Angeles to Lakehurst , September 9, 1929
  2. ^ Film 1929: Around the World in a Zeppelin - The Love Story by Lady Hay and Karl von Wiegand , Netherlands, 2009. Documentary (Arte / ARD) by Ditteke Mensink with original recordings
  3. ^ Time: Milestones, Feb. 25, 1946

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personal data
SURNAME Drummond-Hay, Grace Marguerite Hay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lethbridge, Grace Marguerite (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, first woman to circumnavigate the world in an airship
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1946
Place of death Manhattan , New York City , New York , United States