Shirley Grey (born Agnes Evangeline Zetterstrand) in 1936
Barbara Joyce Wood in 1948
Arthur Margetson (27 April 1887 – 13 August 1951) was a British stage and film actor[1] and radio broadcaster. He was also a composer of music and lyrics, and an impersonator of performers such as G P Huntley, Alfred Lester, and Harry Weldon.
From 1925 to 1949 Margetson crossed the Atlantic, either alone or with his current wife, at least 20 times in several different liners, including the Île de France and the Queen Elizabeth. On 21 August 1924, the French vessel De Grasse transported Arthur and his first wife Rosamund on its maiden voyage from Le Havre, arriving in New York on 5 September.[2]
Arthur Charles Margetson was born on 27 April 1897 in Marylebone, the second son of Edward John (a fruit salesman and Freemason[6]) and Marion Stocqueler Home (née Wardroper). He attended the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey.[7]
Margetson married in turn:
Rosamond Bertram Ifould (née Hobson) in Manhattan on 5 March 1923. She had had three children by her first marriage. They were divorced in London in 1925.[8]
Vera Alys Lennox, at the Savoy Chapel on 28 June 1926.[9] She divorced him in London in 1932.[10]
Barbara Joyce Wood, a former photographers model,[13] in New York in 1948.[14]
Hammer House historian Howard Maxford states Margetson was originally a stockbroker, but provides no evidence.[15] Arthur's brother Edward was an insurance brokers manager in 1939.[13]
Arthur Margetson was keen on swimming, music, and lyric writing. He was a member of the Savage Club, the Stage Golfing Society[16] and the Green Room Club.[17]
