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Pauline de Rothschild (née Potter; December 31, 1908 – March 8, 1976) was a writer, a fashion designer, and, with her second husband, a translator of both Elizabethan poetry and the plays of Christopher Fry.〔Philippe de Rothschild and Joan Littlewood, ''Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild'' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984)〕 She was the only woman named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1969, alongside Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dean Acheson, Angier Biddle Duke, Cary Grant, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.〔Marylin Bender, "A New Goal for the Ambitious Male: The Best Dressed List", ''The New York Times'', 13 January 1969〕〔Bernadine Morris, "Wives Proud of 'Best-Dressed' Husbands", The New York Times, 12 January 1970〕 ==Early life== She was born Pauline Potter at 10 rue Octave Feuillet in the Paris neighborhood of Passy, to wealthy expatriate American parents of Protestant background.〔Jerry Rosco, ''Glenway Wescott, Personally'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)〕〔Frank J. Prial, "Baroness Pauline de Rothschild Dies", ''The New York Times'', 9 March 1976〕 Her mother was Gwendolen Cary, a great-grand-niece of Thomas Jefferson and a distant cousin of Britain's Lords Falkland and Cary.〔"Francis H. Potter Weds in England; Nephew of Bishop Potter Marries Miss Gwendolyn () Cary at Westminster", ''The New York Times'', 22 October 1907〕〔Her maternal great-grandmother, Jane Margaret Carr Cary, was a daughter of Thomas Jefferson's sister, Martha Jefferson, and Jefferson's best friend, Dabney Carr.〕 Her father was Francis Hunter Potter, a playboy who was a grandson of Alonzo Potter, an Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, and a nephew and great-nephew of successive Episcopal bishops of New York, Horatio Potter and Henry Codman Potter.〔 Potter was a member of several families that were prominent in the American South since the 17th century. She was a great-great-granddaughter of Francis Scott Key and a direct descendant of Pocahontas.〔Stuart E. Brown, Lorraine F.Myers, and Eileen M. Chappel, ''Pocahontas’ Descendants'', The Pocahontas Foundation, 1985, reprinted 2003 by the Genealogical Publishing Co. Her mother's line of descent from Pocahontas is (1) John Rolfe (1585 - ~1622) & Pocahontas (~1595 - ~1617); (2) Thomas Rolfe (~1615 - ) & Jane Poythress; (3) Jane Rolfe (1650 - 1676) & Col. Robert Bolling (1646 - 1709); (4) John Bolling (1676 - 1729) & Mary Kennon (1679 - ); (5) Jane Bolling (1698 - 1767) & Col. Richard Randolph, (1689 - 1748); (6) Mary Randolph, (1727 - 1781) & Archibald Cary (1721 - 1787); (7) Anne Cary, (~1745 - 1789) & Thomas Mann Randolph, (1741 - 1793); (8) Virginia Randolph, (1786 - ) & Wilson Jefferson Cary (1784 - 1823); (9) Wilson Miles Cary (1806 - 1877) & Jane Margaret Carr; (10) Sydney Carr Cary (1845 - 1896) & Pauline Playford; (11) Gwendolen Playford Cary〕〔The descent from Key is as follows: Francis Scott Key married Mary Tayloe Lloyd = Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) married, in 1845, Ellen Swann = Alice Lloyd Key (1855-) married Francis Hunter Potter Sr = Francis Hunter Potter Jr married Gwendolen Cary = Pauline Potter Leser de Rothschild. This line of descent has been established through period newspaper articles (particularly those about the famous murder of U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key by Congressman Daniel Sickles in 1859, an episode that is the subject of the book ''American Scoundrel'' by Thomas Keneally).〕 Her grand-aunts Jennie and Hetty Cary (wife of the Confederate general John Pegram) were well-known figures during the Civil War, known as the "Cary Invincibles" and considered heroines for sewing battle flags. It was Jennie Cary who put the words of James Ryder Randall's poem "Maryland, My Maryland" to the German folk song "Lauriger Hortius", thereby creating what would become the state song of Maryland. Her mother's cousin and sometime guardian Constance Cary Harrison was one of the United States' best-known women in the late 19th century, a prominent novelist and social reformer. Another cousin, Francis Burton Harrison, served as Governor General of the Philippines and was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency.〔Jerry Rosco, ''Glenway Wescott, Personally'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), page 55〕 Due to her parents' frequent separations and subsequent divorce and their later marital and romantic entanglements and custody disputes, she was brought up in varying degrees of poverty and luxury in New York City, Paris, Biarritz, and Baltimore.〔 She was educated at a private finishing school in Groslay, a town north of Paris, as well as schools and tutors elsewhere in France and Maryland, but her formal education was effectively over by the age of 16.〔 By her father's second marriage to Clara Waterman Knight Colford (formerly Mrs. Sidney Jones Colford), a Philadelphia sugar and utilities heiress, she had two stepsisters, Clara and Dorothy.〔"Mrs. Colford Weds F.H. Potter in Nice", ''The New York Times'', 8 April 1921〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pauline de Rothschild」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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