Cynthia Cary

She was born on 10 April 1884 in London to James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy (1852–1920), an Irish peer who was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, and Frances Ellen Work (1857–1947), an American heiress and socialite. Her brothers were Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the Hon. Francis Burke Roche.

In 1904, Good Housekeeping magazine described her as among the members of New York's Four Hundred (see The Four Hundred (1892)) who were daring and skilful automobilists.{{cite news |page=343|work=Good Housekeeping |title= Cynthia Roche| volume= 38 |year=1904}} Roche was also recognised as a skilled tennis player and horserider.{{cite news | date = 3 May 1921 | title = Asks Burden Committee; Brother in Application Calls Relative Incompetent | page = 2 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/03/archives/asks-burden-committee-brother-in-application-calls-relative.html | work = The New York Times | access-date = 12 September 2009 }}

In 1908, Roche became a naturalised United States citizen.{{cite news | date = 19 July 1908 | title = Mrs. Burden now a Citizen. The Former Cynthia Roche Takes Out Her Naturalization Papers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/07/19/archives/mrs-burden-now-a-citizen-the-former-cynthia-roche-takes-out-her.html | work = The New York Times | access-date = 12 September 2009 }}

On 11 June 1906, Roche married Arthur Scott Burden. Burden was the grandson of industrialist Henry Burden and President of the family business Burden Iron Works.{{Cite book |last=Mateyunas |first=Paul J. |title=Long Island's Gold Coast |last2=DeMille |first2=Foreword by Nelson |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7385-9131-5 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=4 |language=en}} His career, however, was significantly impaired after two horse falls, the second of which seriously aggravated the injuries incurred from the first.{{cite news |title=A Victim of Pneumonia, He Passes Away in Hospital After a Brief Illness. He was 42 Years Old. Twice Injured by Falls From His Horse. Husband of Cynthia Roche. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/06/16/109807007.pdf |quote=Arthur Scott Burden, brother of James A. Burden, President of the Burden Iron Works of Troy and husband of the former Cynthia Roche, died yesterday of pneumonia at a branch of the New York Hospital in White Plains. ... | work = The New York Times | date = 16 June 1921 | access-date = 28 August 2009 }} As a result of these injuries, Burden was placed under constant care from late 1913, and James A. Burden Jr., Arthur Burden's brother, filed a petition in Cynthia Roche's absence, (as both she and her daughter were in London at the time), requesting that Arthur Burden be declared incompetent. Burden died from pneumonia in June 1921.

The couple had a daughter:

• Eileen Burden (1910–1970),{{cite news |title=Mrs. Burden To Wed Guy F. Cary Today. Widow of Arthur Scott Burden Will Marry New York Lawyer at Newport. Bride Is the Only Daughter of Mrs. Burke-Roche and a Sister of Baron Fermoy. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/24/archives/mrs-burden-to-wed-guy-f-cary-today-widow-of-arthur-scott-burden.html |quote=The social colony here received a big surprise today when it became known that Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden of 147 East Sixty-first Street, New York, and Guy Fairfax Cary of 54 Park Avenue, New York, are to be married at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Elm Court, the Summer home of Mrs. Burden's mother on Bellevue Avenue. |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 1922 |access-date=28 August 2009 }} who married investment banker Walter Maynard (d. 1971), a son of Walter E. Maynard, and had three children.{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Walter Maynard Is Dead at 65; Leader in Securities Industry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/29/archives/walter-maynard-is-dead-at-65-leaderin-securities-industry.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 November 1971}} They later divorced and in 1963,{{cite news|work=Princeton Alumni Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBRbAAAAYAAJ|page=19|title = Cynthia Roche |publisher=Princeton University|date=24 May 1963}} she married Thomas Robins.{{cite news|title=Thomas Robins Jr., Company Chairman. Headed Hewitt-Robins, Producers of Synthetic Rubber|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/05/29/75747818.html?pageNumber=28|access-date=14 April 2016|work=The New York Times|date=29 May 1977}} Robins was the son of Thomas Robins, inventor of the conveyor belt.{{cite news |title=Thomas Robins, Inventor, 89, Dies. Developer of Heavy-Duty Conveyor Belt Had Headed Hewitt-Robins Company |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/11/05/archives/thomas-robins-inventor-89-dies-developer-of-heavyduty-conveyor-belt.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 November 1957 |access-date=18 December 2013 }}

In 1922, after her first husband's death, Roche married Guy Fairfax Cary Sr. (1879–1950) and they honeymooned at the fishing lodge of Robert Walton Goelet.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Burden To Wed Guy F. Cary Today. Widow of Arthur Scott Burden Will Marry New York Lawyer at Newport. Bride Is the Only Daughter of Mrs. Burke-Roche and a Sister of Baron Fermoy. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/24/archives/mrs-burden-to-wed-guy-f-cary-today-widow-of-arthur-scott-burden.html |quote=The social colony here received a big surprise today when it became known that Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden of 147 East Sixty-first Street, New York, and Guy Fairfax Cary of 54 Park Avenue, New York, are to be married at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Elm Court, the Summer home of Mrs. Burden's mother on Bellevue Avenue. |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 1922 |access-date= 28 August 2009 }} Cary, a lawyer who was a partner with Shearman & Sterling, was the son of Clarence Cary and Elisabeth Miller Potter.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Burden Weds Guy Fairfax Cary. Seventy Relatives and Friends at Widow's Marriage to New York Lawyer at Roche Home. Amid 11,000 Columbia Roses. Bridal Pair Leave by Motor for R. W. Goelet's Fishing Lodge in Canada to Spend Honeymoon. |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/25/archives/mrs-burden-weds-guy-fairfax-cary-seventy-relatives-and-friends-at-w.html |quote=In the presence of about seventy relatives and close friends in the reception room of Elm Court, the Summer home of Mrs. Burke Roche, on Bellevue Avenue, Mrs. Cynthia Roche Burden, Mrs. Roche's ... |work=The New York Times |date=25 July 1922 |access-date= 28 August 2009 }} His father and aunt, Constance Cary (1843–1920), were the children of Archibald Cary and Monimia Fairfax.Archibald Cary was the son of Wilson Jefferson Cary and Virginia Randolph. Monimia Fairfax was the daughter of Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron{{cite book | last = Pecquet du Bellet | first = Louise |author2=Edward Jaquelin |author3=Martha Cary Jaquelin | title = Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 2 | publisher = Bell | year = 1907 | page = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tyQSAAAAYAAJ/page/n93 81] | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tyQSAAAAYAAJ }} Together, they had two children:

• Guy Fairfax Cary Jr. (1923–2004), who died unmarried.{{cite news|title=Paid Notice: Deaths — CARY, GUY FAIRFAX|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/classified/paid-notice-deaths-cary-guy-fairfax.html|work=The New York Times|date=19 November 2004}}
• Cynthia Cary (1924–2019), who married Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt (1922–2003) and had three children. She later married Edwin F. Russell (1914–2001), who had four children.{{cite news|last1=Meier|first1=Barry|title=Edwin F. Russell, 87, Newspaper Publisher|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/25/business/edwin-f-russell-87-newspaper-publisher.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 December 2001}}

Cynthia died at her home in Newport, aged 82, on 18 December 1966.{{cite news|title=MRS. GUY CARY, DIES; NEWPORT FIGURE, 82|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/19/archives/mrs-guy-cary-dies-newport-figure-82.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=19 December 1966}}{{cite news|title=Deaths {{!}} CARY -- Cynthia Burke Roche|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/20/archives/deaths.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=20 December 1966}} She left an estate valued at $300,000. Her home and the residue of her estate were received by her son, Guy Fairfax Cary Jr.{{cite news|title=Mrs. Cary Left $700,000|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/31/archives/mrs-cary-left-700000.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=31 December 1966}}

Through her eldest daughter, she was the grandmother of Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad,{{cite news |title=Weddings; Camilla Campbell, Oliver Platt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/13/style/weddings-camilla-campbell-oliver-platt.html |work=The New York Times |date=13 September 1992 |access-date=10 March 2008}} married Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as US ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines,{{cite news |first=David |last=Kipen |title=Oliver Platt: from second banana to pick of the bunch |work=L.A. Life |publisher=Los Angeles Daily News |date=3 April 1995 |page=L1}} and had 3 sons: Adam Platt, a New York magazine restaurant critic, Oliver Platt (b. 1960), the actor, and Nicholas Platt Jr. Also through her eldest daughter, she was the grandmother to Walter Maynard Jr., an investment advisor with Morgan Stanley who married Pamela S. Silver in 1954 and has issue,{{cite news|title=Audrey Maynard Becomes the Bride of Kaighn Smith Jr.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/style/audrey-maynard-becomes-the-bride-of-kaighn-smith-jr.html|work=The New York Times|date=19 September 1982}} and John Maynard.{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special to The New York|title=PAMELA S. SILVER BECOMES ENGAGED Former Wellesley Student to Be Bride of Lieut, Walter Maynard Jr. of Marines|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/08/archives/pamela-s-silver-b-bsua-former-wellesley-student-to-l-be-bride-of.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=8 August 1954}}

In 1981, the Redwood Library received her collected art as the Cynthia Cary Collection. It was donated by her son, Guy Fairfax Cary Jr. The art collection was amassed over decades by her. The collection was previously exhibited at Rhode Island School of Design and Christie's in Manhattan.{{cite web |url=http://redwoodlibrary.org/special_collections/cynthia_cary_collection.html |title=Cynthia Cary Collection |access-date=12 September 2009 |publisher=Redwood Library & Athenæum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827054600/http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/special_collections/cynthia_cary_collection.html |archive-date=27 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}

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