Paula Gellibrand

Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa Maury (1898–1986) was an English society beauty and mannequin, once one of the favourite models of Cecil Beaton, and described by contemporaries as "the most beautiful woman in Europe". Her sister was Nadeja Gellibrand, also known as Nada Ruffer, Vogue editor. Background Paula Gellibrand was born in Penarth in 1898, the daughter of William Clarke Gellibrand, a timber importer based in Cardiff. William Clarke Gellibrand was the son of Thomas Samuel Gellibrand (died 1897), Russia merchant, of Morgan Gellibrand and Co. He married, firstly, in 1885, Agnes Steel Drynan Johnson, daughter of Charles Johnson of Richmond, Surrey. She died in 1886 at age 22. There was a son Guy of this marriage, born 5 December 1886. William married, secondly, in Boston, Isabel Marie Dever, fifth daughter of James Dever. Dever's sixth daughter Adah Felicitas married in 1891 in Kensington a British graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Frederick Arthur Roberts, son of the merchant William Roberts.