PLUCK FAILED.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18393, 16 January 1932, Page 1

PLUCK FAILED.

LADY TORIUNGTON’S DEATH. Former “Gaiety girl” and well-' known figure on stage and turf, Lady Eleanor Torrington was found dead in bed in her Westminster fiat, with a gas-ring at her side. She first met Lord Torrington at Ostend racecourse, where his horse was favourite and hers an outsider, Her horse won, and Lord Torrington hurried to congratulate the winning owner. They married in Paris in 1910, the jockey Toe Sloan being among those present, She obtained a divorce in 1921. She spent £30,000 on training sthbles and stud farm at Shrcwton, purchased from Mr R. S. Sievier, and won several good races, bill was financially, unsuccessful, and became bankrupt in 1930. Recently, she founded the Vortex Social Club in the West End, and spent her last evening there dancing. She lived frugally in her flat, doing her own-cooking-and housework, trast to her' former luxury. Her solicitor denied, however, that she was living in poverty. Influential friends would have provided money if slio had needed it. She was a very plucky and optimistic woman, and Was planning to write her memoirs.