Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Bapsy Pavri on 20th September 1930 asking for her autograph.
Bapsy Paulet (1902-1995), Marchioness of Winchester, also known as Bapsybanoo Pavry, was an Indian-born socialite and aristocrat.
She was born Bapsy Pavry of Bombay, the daughter of a Parsi Zoroastrian "Head Priest", the Most Rev. Cursetji Erachji Pavry(also spelled as Khurshedji). Her brother, Dr. Jal Pavry and she travelled extensively, visiting Germany, Italy, Belgium, Greece, and Egypt, where they were received by Adolf Hitler, Pope Pius XI, Benito Mussolini as well as the respective monarchs of Belgium, Greece, Iran, Afghanistan and Egypt. In England she was received by King George and Queen Mary. She received an MA from Columbia University after initial schooling at St. Xavier's College in Bombay.
She lived in England from a young age, where she pursued a "campaign to become one of the great figures of the age" by breaking into English high society. She was painted several times by Augustus John, including in 1930, and was the subject of an essay by Duncan Fallowell
