Ruth Baldwin (socialite)

Catherine Ruth Baldwin (17 February 1905 – 31 August 1937) was an American-born English socialite, part of the Bright Young Things crowd.

"[1] Her circle of friends included painter Edward Burra and society portrait photographers Barbara Ker-Seymer and Olivia Wyndham, the last possibly her lover as well.

[6] Baldwin died of a suspected overdose at a Chelsea party at the home of Gwen Farrar on 31 August 1937, while her friends, among them Dolly Wilde, listened to a boxing match in the next room.

She had short hair and a mannish tie, probably alluding to the fact she was lesbian; the article also said she was sharing a house with Carstairs.

[1] When Carstairs died in Naples, Florida, in 1993 at the age of 93, Lord Tod Wadley was cremated with her.