Margaret Eleanor Crosby, Baroness Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall (New York City, April 25, 1884 – London, England, March 1, 1943) was an American heiress and philanthropist.
[1][2] Margaret Eleanor Crosby grew up on Grasmere estate close to Rhinebeck, NY, which her grandma Sarah Minerva Schieffelin bought in 1894.
[1][2] Margaret Eleanor Crosby married William Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall in 1912.
[1][6] Margaret Eleanor met Captain Vanneck, who was stationed with his regiment in India, at the Coronation Durbar in Delhi.
[1] Margaret Eleanor Crosby died in 1943 in London, soon after her home was bombed during a German airstrike in World War II.