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Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness (29 October 1883 – 6 October 1940) was a British shipping magnate and during his lifetime one of the richest men in the world.
23 ago 2021 · At a dinner in Paris, she met her future second husband – Marmaduke Furness, who had been created Viscount Furness in 1918. He also happened to be one of Britain’s wealthiest men. He was also 20 years older than Thelma, and he, too, had been married before.
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (née Morgan, 23 August 1904 – 29 January 1970), was a mistress of King Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. She was supplanted in his affections by Wallis Simpson, for whose sake Edward abdicated, becoming the Duke of Windsor.
Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness (29 October 1883 – 6 October 1940) was a British shipping magnate and during his lifetime one of the richest men in the world. Background. Furness was the son of Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness and Jane Annette Suggit.
- 29 October 1883
- Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France
- West Hartlepool, Durham, England
Ancestors. Son of Christopher Furness and Jane Ann Suggitt. [sibling (s) unknown] Husband of Daisy Ada (Hogg) Furness — married 1904 (to 1921) in Hartlepool, Durham. Husband of Thelma Morgan — married 1926 (to 1933) in St. George Hanover Square, London, England.
Viscount Furness, of Grantley in the West Riding of the County of York, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1918 for the shipping magnate Marmaduke Furness, 2nd Baron Furness.
24 ago 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. Thelma began to divide her time between London and New York, and she eventually managed to have an amicable relationship with her former husband, Marmaduke. He turned out to be quite ill with cirrhosis of the liver, and he died on 6 October 1940.
