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Elsie Mackay (21 August 1893 – 13 March 1928) was a British actress, jockey, interior decorator and pioneering aviator who died attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Walter G. R. Hinchliffe in a single engined Stinson Detroiter. Her stage name as an actress was Poppy Wyndham.
- British
- 1893, Simla, India
- Poppy Wyndham
- 13 March 1928 (aged 35), Lost in the Atlantic Ocean
Elsie Mackay. Actress: Nothing But the Truth. When Elsie Gertrude Mackay was born in Roebourne, Western Australia, Australia, her father, Samuel Peter Mckay, was 30 and her mother, Gertrude Florence Taylor was 27.
- Actress
- February 20, 1893
- Elsie Mackay
- February 6, 1963
12 de jul. de 2023 · 3. 123 views 2 years ago. Cranwell Aviation Heritage Museum portrays the fascinating but ultimately tragic story of the India-born actress, designer and aviator, Elsie Mackay. Elsie was...
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Actress: The Tidal Wave. The Honorable Elsie Mackay was born August 21, 1893 in Simla-Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape of Strathnaver, a British colonial administrator in India who became chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and Jean Paterson Shanks.
- January 1, 1
- Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India
- January 1, 1
- at sea
13 de oct. de 2020 · West Australian born Elsie Mackay was unusual for her time, in that she narrated a short and reasonably frank article to journalist Walter James regarding her life. It appeared in the literary magazine Southerly, in 1950, 16 years after her return to Australia.
6 de jul. de 2016 · Elsie Mackay’s goal was not simply to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic, but also to be the first person to cross against the frequent headwinds of the much more difficult east-to-west direction.
Reborn as the doe-eyed silent film actress, Poppy Wyndham, she appeared in films with titles like Snow in the Desert (1919) and Nothing But the Truth (1920). In Many a Slip (1917), she played The Girl; in The Tidal Wave (1920), she was an artist rescued from the sea—and her own ambition?—by a ruggedly handsome fisherman.
