Euretta de Cosson Rathbone

British ski racer and patron of the arts
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish ski racer and patron of the arts
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
isSkier
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Death2003
Family
Spouse:Perry T. Rathbone
The details

Biography

Euretta Cecilia de Cosson Rathbone (died 2003) was a British champion ski racer and a patron of the arts.

Rettles, as she was known, was born in Cairo, Egypt to the British head of Egypt's public works Claude Augustin de Cosson and Euretta Kirkbride, a Philadelphian descendant of a long line of Philadelphia Quakers. Her grandfather was a baron. She took up skiing while in finishing school in Switzerland. She became captain of the British ski team and won several events.

She won a combined event in 1939. She suffered a concussion in competition on Baldy Mountain in 1941.

She married art museum director Perry T. Rathbone in 1945. She died in 2003 after being hit by a bus. She had three children and seven grandchildren.

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