Euretta de Cosson Rathbone explained

Euretta Cecilia de Cosson Rathbone (died 2003) was a British champion ski racer and a patron of the arts.[1]

Rettles, as she was known, was born in Cairo, Egypt to the British head of Egypt's public works Claude Augustin de Cosson and Euretta Kirkbride, a Philadelphian descendant of a long line of Philadelphia Quakers.[2] Her grandfather was a baron.[3] She took up skiing while in finishing school in Switzerland. She became captain of the British ski team and won several events.

She won a combined event in 1939.[4] She suffered a concussion in competition on Baldy Mountain in 1941.[5]

She married art museum director Perry T. Rathbone in 1945.[1] [6] [7] She died in 2003 after being hit by a bus. She had three children and seven grandchildren.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Euretta de Cosson Rathbone -- ski champion of '30s. Boston. Globe. March 20, 2003. SFGate.
  2. Web site: Clipped From St. Louis Post-Dispatch. February 11, 1945. 46. newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: The Downside Review. February 16, 1907. Downside Abbey.. Google Books.
  4. Web site: The Ski Bulletin. October 16, 1939. Alfred B. Moorhouse, pub.. Google Books.
  5. Web site: Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine. January 16, 1941. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Google Books.
  6. Web site: EURETTA DE COSSON ENGAGED TO MARRY; She Will Become Bride of Lieut. Perry T. Rathbone of Navy. June 18, 1943. NYTimes.com.
  7. Book: The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. registration. Euretta de Cosson.. 1981. J. T. White. Internet Archive.

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