Background
She was born on April 10, 1884 in London to James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy and Frances Ellen Work.
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Cynthia Roche
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Her brothers were Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales., and the Honorary Francis Burke Roche. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908. Roche was also recognized as a skilled tennis player and horserider.
Roche married Arthur Scott Burden (1879-1921) on June 11, 1906.
Burden was the grandson of industrialist Henry Burden and President of the family business Burden Iron Works, but his career was significantly impaired after two horse falls, the second of which seriously aggravated the injuries incurred from the first. Burden died from pneumonia in June, 1921.
The couple had a daughter:
Eileen Burden Maynard Robins (October 15, 1910 - March 24, 1970). Married investment banker Walter Maynard (divorced, 3 children) and then Thomas Robins (married in 1963, predeceased him).
Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad, married Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as United States. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines, and had 3 sons:
Adam Platt, a New York magazine restaurant critic
Oliver Platt, actor
Nicholas Platt, Junior.
Walter Maynard, Junior., investment advisor with Morgan Stanley.
Married Pamela Lord, has issue
John Maynard
After her first husband"s death, Roche married Guy Fairfax Cary, Senior in 1922 and they honeymooned at the fishing lodge of Robert Walton Goelet. They had 2 children:
Guy Fairfax Cary II (1923–2004). Unmarried
Cynthia Cary (b 1924).
3 children from first marriage, 4 stepchildren from second marriage
In 1981, the Redwood Library received her collected art as the Cynthia Cary Collection.
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.
Great-grandmother of actor Oliver Platt.
Membership
In 1904, Good Housekeeping magazine described her as among the members of New York"s Four Hundred (see Forbes 400) who were daring and skillful automobilists.
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