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Denise Orme
Jessie Smither, Duchess of Leinster (25 August 1885 – 20 October 1960), known by her stage name Denise Orme, was an English music hall singer, actress and musician who appeared regularly at the Alhambra and Gaiety Theatres in London in the early years of the 20th century. Married, successively, to an English baron, a Danish millionaire, and an Irish duke, she was the maternal grandmother of Aga Khan IV.
In the 1940s, Orme owned and operated the Beech Hill hotel at Rushlake Green in Sussex, England.〔John Robert Russell, Duke of Bedford, ''A Silver-Plated Spoon'' (Cashel, 1959), p.169〕
==Life and career==
The daughter of Alfred John Smither and Jessicah Henrietta Pococke,〔1901 England Census, register 13; Piece: 125; Folio: 71; Page: 28. 〕 she studied at the Royal Academy of Music (where she won the Wessely Violin Exhibition in 1899) and later the Royal College of Music where she was 'discovered' as a singer by George Edwardes.
Orme's first stage appearance was in 1906 in the chorus of ''The Little Michus'' at Daly's Theatre in London,〔"Denise Orme Missing", ''Derby Daily Telegraph, 7 June 1913, p. 4〕 later taking the role of Blanche Marie in that production. Later the same year, she appeared in the title role of ''See See'' at the Prince of Wales Theatre then appeared in ''The Merveilleuses'' into early 1907. In 1906, she also participated in gramophone recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan's ''The Mikado''. After the birth of her first daughter, she returned to the stage in ''The Hon'ble Phil'' in October 1908, and as Lady Elizabeth Thanet in ''Our Miss Gibbs'' at the Gaiety Theatre, London.〔"New Musical Comedy", Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advisor'', 5 October 1908, p. 7〕
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