Helen Frances (Jaffray) Rooker (1885-1970)

She was a first cousin of Florence Jaffray Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Norway, and a close friend of Margaretta Armstrong Drexel, Countess Winchilsea. She was a popular figure in both London and New York society. She was educated in England at Mortimer House in Clifton (Bristol) and at the Sorbonne in Paris, and by private tutors. She was married twice, first at Paris in 1912 to a Harvard graduate from Boston, Walter Abbott (1867-1919). Guy Fairfax Cary was the best man at their wedding, after which they lived in Boston. After Abbott's premature death she married J. Kingsley Rooker and lived at Snape House, Wadhurst, East Sussex (pictured). When she died in 1970, she was living at Herry near La Charité-sur-Loire in France. Her name has been erroneously added to Wikipedia's list of "The Four Hundred" (drawn up when Helen was just 7-years old) whereas the Miss Jaffray in question was in fact her elder sister, Mary.