Mortimer Singer
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Sir Adam Mortimer Singer, KBE, JP was an Anglo-American landowner, philanthropist, and sportsman. He was one of the earliest pilots in both France and the United Kingdom.
Singer family monument in Torquay Cemetery
Winnaretta Singer
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Winnaretta Singer was an American-born heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel
Mortimer Singer
…inherited substantial wealth of 13 million dollars. He was the eldest of Isabella's children; he had three brothers and two sisters. Of these, his sister Winnaretta married into the French nobility and became a patron of the arts, while his brother Washington was a philanthropist and racehorse owner. Singer…
Self-portrait c.1885
Princesse Louis de Scey-Montbeliard, 1889. By John Singer Sargent (1856–1925).