Edyth Deacon

In 1913, 256 Beacon was the home of Miss Edyth Deacon. During the 1912-1913 winter season, she had lived at 323 Beacon.

Edyth Deacon had been engaged to marry banker George Lee Peabody, who died in February of 1911. She was the sister of Gladys Deacon, who later would become the Duchess of Marlborough, second wife of the Ninth Duke of Marlborough, Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill (first cousin of Winston Churchill), and of Dorothy Deacon, who later would become Princess Radziwell, wife of Prince Radziwell of Poland, and then Countess Palffy, wife of Count Francis Palffy of Hungary.

By the 1913-1914 season, Edyth Deacon had moved to 431 Beacon.

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Edyth Deacon had moved from 431 Beacon by the 1914-1915 season. In November of 1916, she married to attorney Henry Gunther Gray; after their marriage, they lived in New York City.

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