Nancy (Ryan) Holmes (1904-1983)

She was born in Highgate, North London, and was educated in England and Switzerland. After her theatrical debut in London as "Nancy Ryan" she came to New York in 1926 and appeared in seven comedies on Broadway (including The Last of Mrs Cheyney with Ina Claire in 1925 and Forsaking All Others with Tallulah Bankhead in 1933) and in one film, Nothing but the Truth. Her first husband was Daniel Hagood Haynes, of 555 Park Avenue, New York. They were divorced in Nevada in 1938 and on the same day she remarried Carl Fleischmann Holmes, co-heir to the Fleischmann Yeast Company. They first lived in Bermuda before dividing their time between their homes in the Bahamas and at The Farm House on Long Island, where she died in 1983.