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Hermione Darnborough
Hermione Maria Louise Darnborough (1915〔Biographical caption for E.O. Hoppé exhibition, National Portrait Gallery (2011). The 2004 entry for her husband in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' gave her date of birth as "''c.''1914/15". She was 95 when she died in October 2010.〕 – 29 October 2010), later Hermione Mathieson, was an English principal ballerina〔Andrew Youdell, entry for James Muir Mathieson in ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)〕 who made her name at Sadler's Wells in the 1930s. She retired at a young age after marrying the conductor and composer Muir Mathieson.
==Background==
Hermione Darnborough came from a wealthy and well-connected family in Weybridge, Surrey. On the side of her "glamorous and determined" mother,〔 Frances, she was a cousin of the Duke of Argyll and the Duke of Portland.〔John Huntley (1947) ''British Film Music''〕 Her American father, Bill (or Billy) Darnborough (1869–1958), a former minor league baseball player and chop house owner who amassed a small fortune at roulette in the early years of the twentieth century,〔Local gambler ‘broke the bank’ at Monte Carlo http://www.pantagraph.com/special-sections/news/history-and-events/article_3dcd93c6-c56e-5f57-898e-5a374c2440cb.html〕 has been described as "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, though ... ()ike many an habitual gambler, he would generally lose his winnings at the next turn of the wheel, and it took all his wife's pleading to persuade him to stop".〔Obituary of Antony Darnborough, ''Daily Telegraph'', 29 September 2000. William Nelson Darnborough had previously been married in 1891 to Libbie Lewin, whose father ran a saloon and gaming room in Bloomington, Illinois (). He has sometimes been cited erroneously as the inspiration of Fred Gilbert's music hall song, "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" (1891). The latter pre-dated his major gambling exploits and Gilbert himself identified as his model Charles De Ville Wells who won £40,000 at roulette in 1891 and died penniless in 1926: Michael Kilgarriff (1998) ''Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860-1920''; John Major (2012) ''My Old Man''. Another suggested inspiration was Joseph Jagger, a distant relative of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, who won £75,000 at Monte Carlo in 1875: Major, note on page 80.〕 Her brother was the film producer Antony Darnborough (1913–2000),〔Obituary of Antony Darnborough, ''Guardian'', 18 October 2000〕 whose sister-in-law, journalist Drusilla Beyfus, married theatre critic Milton Shulman and was mother of Alexandra Shulman, editor of British ''Vogue'' since 1992, and Nicola Shulman, later Marchioness of Normanby.〔Antony Darnborough married Angela Beyfus in 1958: ''Daily Telegraph'', 29 September 2000. He had previously been engaged to the actress Glynis Johns.〕
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