American socialite, farmer, aviator and member of the Hoover Commission in Poland. He was also an assistant director at 20th Century Fox. He was born on June 15, 1898 in Philadelphia to Barclay Harding Warburton I and Mary Brown Wanamaker. He married Rosamond Lancaster December 10, 1919 in Elkton, Maryland and they had a son, Barclay Harding Warburton III. After a divorce in 1926 she married William Kissam Vanderbilt II. In 1922 he received his Royal Aero Club certificate from the Grahame-White school of flying. In 1930 he announced plans to fly solo around the world. In 1931 he married Evelyn Hall Pierce after she obtained a divorce in Reno, Nevada. She was the daughter of Charles E. McMafus of Rye, New York. On June 27, 1936 he set off a firework at a party for Harold Ross that exploded in his face. He died after a hunting accident on November 26, 1936 in Abington Memorial Hospital. 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 the hospital.
American socialite, farmer, aviator and member of the Hoover Commission in Poland. He was also an assistant director at 20th Century Fox. He was born on June 15, 1898 in Philadelphia to Barclay Harding Warburton I and Mary Brown Wanamaker. He married Rosamond Lancaster December 10, 1919 in Elkton, Maryland and they had a son, Barclay Harding Warburton III. After a divorce in 1926 she married William Kissam Vanderbilt II. In 1922 he received his Royal Aero Club certificate from the Grahame-White school of flying. In 1930 he announced plans to fly solo around the world. In 1931 he married Evelyn Hall Pierce after she obtained a divorce in Reno, Nevada. She was the daughter of Charles E. McMafus of Rye, New York. On June 27, 1936 he set off a firework at a party for Harold Ross that exploded in his face. He died after a hunting accident on November 26, 1936 in Abington Memorial Hospital. 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 the hospital.
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