Ursula St. George (October 22, 1895 – after 1971), born Ursula Edith Kate Mackarness, was an American actress as a teenager. Later in life, known as U. E. K. Cull, she collected art and ancient Chinese artifacts with her banker husband in London.
St. George appeared in The Blue Bird (1911),[6] and was best known in the title role in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which she performed across the United States and Canada in a Klaw and Erlanger production, 1911 and 1912.[7][8][9] She was sixteen years old for much of the run of the show.[10] "Miss St. George holds her audience in the delicious spell of her girlishness and ingenuous beauty," raved a Texas critic.[11]
She and her husband were art collectors, and had a particularly valuable collection of ancient Chinese artifacts. In 1927, Australian artist James Peter Quinn painted her portrait.[12] In 1972, she donated a pair of ancient Chinese bronze vessels to the British Museum, with enough money to build a case for them.[13][14] Other Cull collection items were auctioned by Sotheby's in the 1960s,[15] and she sold seven paintings by James Peter Quinn in 1975.[16] Further objects from their collection were bequeathed to the British Museum in 1979.[17]
Personal life
Ursula Mackarness married London banker Anders Eric Knos Cull in 1913, in London.[1][18] They had six children and lived at Warfield House in Bracknell, Berkshire.[19] The Culls' grandson Eric Brodnax was a member of the equestrian team representing the U.S. Virgin Islands at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.[20]
Ursula Mackarness Cull was widowed in 1968,[21] and still alive in 1972.[13]
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