I am looking for information about Rena De Vere Terrington, born in England in 1898, the daughter of Captain William Shapland Swiney and Violet Hamilton née Jerningham. In 1927 she married an English lord, Baron Terrington, whose family name was Woodhouse. It was his second marriage and her third.
They separated about 1930 and he died in 1940. Rena worked as a journalist and seems to have settled in the USA. She is noted twice in U.S. Immigration records, first in September 1935, in New York, most likely for residency, then an application for citizenship in June 1944, based on her being ‘a news correspondent with American armed forces overseas’.
She seems to have kept her title of Lady Terrington all her life, but I have found no record of her death in any country. She may have remarried.
She was also the author of several books. A list of female authors states that she died in 1973, but that is when Terrington’s first wife, Vera died, in England on 19 May. As Vera was also an author, it seems likely that somebody has confused the two. I have found no evidence that Rena ever returned to England.
Can anyone shed any light on Lady Rena's fate ?
