Mary Landon Baker (b. August 15,[1] 1901;[2] died 1961) was a rich American socialite and heiress famous for her romantic life.
[3][4] Newspapers worldwide covered her love life with Allister McCormick, whom she repeatedly left at the altar in the early 1920s.
[4][5] Among those she rejected as possible husbands were also an English Lord, a rich Spaniard, and an Irish prince.
[6] The New York Times reported that the theater actor Barry Baxter died of a heart attack on the day that Baker broke up with him.
[7] Baker was apparently enamoured for most of her life with the British politician and writer Henry "Chips" Channon who refers to her repeatedly in his published diaries.