Barclay Harding Warburton II

Barclay Harding Warburton II
Born June 15, 1898
Philadelphia
Died November 26, 1936 (aged 38)
Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Cause of death
 Gunshot
Other names Buzz Warburton
Employer American Relief Administration
Spouse(s) Rosamund Lancaster (1897-1947) (m. 1919–26)
Evelyn Hall McMafus (m. 1931–36)
Children Barclay Harding Warburton III
Parent(s) Barclay Harding Warburton I and Mary Brown Wanamaker
Relatives John Wanamaker, grandfather
Mary Brown Warburton, sister

Barclay Harding Warburton II (June 15, 1898 - November 26, 1936) was an American socialite, farmer, and aviator.[1][2] Around 1919 he worked for the American Relief Administration in their mission to Poland as a sergeant.[2][3][4][5] He was also an assistant director at 20th Century Fox.[6]

Biography

He was born on June 15, 1898 in Philadelphia to Barclay Harding Warburton I and Mary Brown Wanamaker.[7] During World War I he served overseas in the United States Army Signal Corps with the rank of sergeant and was later promoted to a lieutenant.[4][8]

He married Rosamond Lancaster December 10, 1919 in Elkton, Maryland and they had a son, Barclay Harding Warburton III.[2][9] After a divorce in 1926 she married William Kissam Vanderbilt II.[8][10] In 1922 he received his Royal Aero Club certificate from the Grahame-White school of flying.[11] In 1930 he announced plans to fly solo around the world.[12][13] In 1931 he married Evelyn Hall Pierce in Chicago, Illinois.[3][14]

On June 27, 1936 he set off a firework at a party for Harold Ross that exploded in his face.[15]

He was in a hunting accident on November 26, 1936. He said that his shotgun had accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence while hunting for pheasant at his Saracen Farm near in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He survived long enough to make it back to the house and was taken to Abington Memorial Hospital where he died the same day.[6][16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jerzy Jan Lerski (December 7, 1936). "Died". Time magazine. Retrieved 2011-05-26. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Milestones". Time magazine. August 23, 1926. Retrieved 2011-05-29. Divorced. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton, from Barclay Harding Warburton Jr., grandson of the late John Wanamaker and onetime member of the Hoover Commission in Poland; in Paris.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "B. H. Warburton Jr. Weds In Chicago. He and Mrs. Evelyn McManus Pierce Are Secretly Married. Former Mrs. H.D. Pierce. She Was Recently Divorced In Reno. Each Married First Time Without Announcement". New York Times. April 19, 1931. Retrieved 2011-05-29. Mr. Warburton received his first alight training in England in 1917 and holds a British FAI license. In the World War he served overseas in the signal corps ...
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 William Remsburgh Grove (1940). War's aftermath: Polish relief in 1919. Personnel; American Relief Administration; Mission to Poland American Technical Advisers to Poland ... Harwood Stacy, James O. Taylor, Reginald R. Tooley, John N. Trierweiler, John C. Ulrick, Eugene O. Walker, Barclay H. Warburton, James W. Webb ...
  5. ↑ Herbert Hoover and Poland: a documentary history of a friendship. Hoover Institution Press. 1977. Retrieved 2011-05-28. ... John N. Trierweiler, John C. Ulrick, Eugene O. Walker, Barclay H. Warburton, James W. Webb, A.D. Whittemore ...
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Warburton Jr., Fatally Shot By Own Gun". Associated Press. November 27, 1936. Retrieved 2011-05-26. serving as an assistant director at Fox. ...
  7. ↑ "Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton Is Dead at 85. A Leader in Welfare Work and Politics". New York Times. November 18, 1954. Retrieved 2011-05-26. Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton I, daughter of the late John Wanamaker ...
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Divorced". New York Times. August 14, 1926. Barclay H. Warburton Jr. served overseas in the Signal Corps with the rank of Lieutenant. He also served on the Hoover Commission in Poland. ...
  9. ↑ Dorothy Kelly MacDowell (1989). Commodore Vanderbilt and his family. In 1919 she was married at Elkton, MD to Barclay Harding Warburton, Jr., son of Major Warburton and his wife, Mary Brown Wanamaker, daughter of the department store founder John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia. ...
  10. ↑ "Vanderbilt Weds Mrs. Warburton". New York Times. September 6, 1927. Retrieved 2011-05-26. William K. Warburton and Bride Receive Compliments From Paris Mayor Who Marries ... William K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Rosamond Lancaster Warburton were married ...
  11. ↑ Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom; Royal Aero Club (Great Britain) (January 1922). "Flight: the aircraft engineer & airships. Volume 11. Part 2". London. p. 1267. ISSN 0959-5392. OCLC 7319424. Retrieved 2011-05-30. Mr. Barclay Harding Warburton, Junr., of Philadelphia, USA, has just taken his Royal Aero Club Certificate at the Grahame-White School of Flying, Hendon, under the instruction of Capt. P. T. Chamberlayne, Chief Pilot of the company.  It is noteworthy that Mr. Warburton flew solo after four hours' dual instruction, and passed his certificate tests satisfactorily after having done 45 minutes of solo flying.
  12. ↑ "To Fly Solo Round World. Barclay H. Warburton Jr. Will Take Eight Months to Pilot Small Craft in Flight. Will Ship Over Seas". New York Times. October 26, 1930. Retrieved 2011-05-26. A long-felt ambition to see the world by airplane is about to be realized by Barclay H. Warburton Jr. of New York and Philadelphia, grandson of the late John Wanamaker.
  13. ↑ "To Resume World Flight. Barclay H. Warburton Jr. Plans Miami Take-Off Today". New York Times. December 27, 1930. Retrieved 2011-05-26. Barclay H. Warburton Jr. of Philadelphia will take off from Miami ... was in Miami arranging for the take-off, which was postponed today because of ... Related web pages
  14. ↑ "Married". Time magazine. April 27, 1931. Retrieved 2011-05-27. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago.
  15. ↑ "Warburton Jr. Hurt In Fireworks Prank. Rocket Set at Stamford to Notify Host, Harold Ross, of Arrival Explodes in His Face". New York Times. June 28, 1936. Retrieved 2011-05-27. A surprise intended for his host had an unpleasant aftermath today when Barclay Warburton Jr., 38, member of a well-known Philadelphia family, was injured as he shot off a fireworks rocket about 1 A.M., to announce his arrival at the Summer home of Harold W. Ross, editor of The New Yorker. ...
  16. ↑ "Hunting Gun Kills B. H. Warburton Jr.; Grandson of John Wanamaker Snags Weapon As He Seeks Game in Pennsylvania". New York Times. November 27, 1936. Retrieved 2011-05-22. Barclay H. Warburton Jr., 38, eldest of the three children of Major and Mrs. Barclay Warburton and a grandson of the late John Wanamaker, was fatally injured in a gunning accident while he was hunting alone this afternoon on his 94-acre farm near Doylestown. ...