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In 1879 Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter was born to Levi Zeigler Leiter (age 44) in Chicago.
1898. John Singer Sargent (age 41). Portrait of Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 19).
After 1900. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 21)
On 9th June 1904 [her father] Levi Zeigler Leiter (age 69) died.
On 26th December 1904 Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire (age 27) and Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 25) were married. She a wealthy American heiress, one of many who married into English nobilty around the time. He the son of Henry Charles Howard 18th Earl Suffolk 11th Earl Berkshire and Mary Eleanor Coventry Countess Suffolk and Berkshire (age 57).
1905. John Singer Sargent (age 48). Portrait of Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 26).
On 2nd March 1906 [her son] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire was born to [her husband] Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire (age 28) and Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 27).
On 21st April 1917 [her husband] Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire (age 39) was killed in action when a piece of shrapnel entered his heart. His son [her son] Charles (age 11) succeeded 20th Earl Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire.
In 1934 [her son] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire (age 27) and [her daughter-in-law] Minnie Mabel "Mimi" Forde Pigott Countess of Suffolk and Bershire (age 36) were married. She by marriage Countess Suffolk, Countess Berkshire. He the son of [her former husband] Henry Molyneux Paget Howard 19th Earl Suffolk 12th Earl Berkshire and Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 55).
On 12th May 1941 [her son] Charles Howard 20th Earl of Suffolk, 13th Earl Berkshire (age 35) was killed. He had successfully defused thirty-four bombs. The thirty-fifth exploded at Erith Marshes, Kent bomb cemetery. The 250kg bomb, dropped six months earlier, contained a Zus 40 booby trap that detonated when the Type 17 fuse was withdrawn. The explosion killed fourteen people: the Earl, his chauffeur Fred Hards, his secretary Eileen Beryl Morden (who died in the ambulance), and eleven other people who were nearby.
[her grandson] Michael Howard 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire (age 6) succeeded 21st Earl Suffolk, 14th Earl Berkshire, 13th Viscount Andover in Hampshire, 13th Baron Howard of Charlton in Wiltshire.
On 5th March 1968 Margaret Hyde "Daisy" Leiter (age 89) died.