Edith Kingdon

She was an actress, known for When Knights Were Bold (1929), Fugitive Road (1934) and Once a Lady (1931). She was married to Robert Kingdon Ellis (physician).

She died on November 13, 1921 at the golf course of their home at Georgian Court in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. After a private funeral at the Gould home, she was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, in the Jay Gould Mausoleum.

Through her daughter Helen, she was the grandmother of Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies (1915–1992).

She worked as a stage actress until her marriage to George Jay Gould I. In 1908, she returned to acting, appearing in a one-act play opposite Frederick Townsend Martin. The play, Mrs. Van Vechten's Divorce Dance, was performed in the ballroom of the Plaza Hotel. Her performance was attended by Commodore Elbridge Thomas Gerry and his wife, Louisa Livingston Gerry, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Gladys Vanderbilt, Count Széchenyi, Ellen French Vanderbilt (wife of Alfred G. Vanderbilt), Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, Marion Anthon Fish (wife of Stuyvesant Fish), Ruth Livingston Mills (wife of Ogden Mills), Anne Harriman Vanderbilt (wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt), and many others prominent in New York society.

Edith Kingdon was born on July 25, 1868 in Marylebone, London, England as Edith May Roth.

Edith Mary Kingdon Gould (August 24, 1864 – November 13, 1921) was an American actress. She married George Jay Gould.