Third Marriage
His third wife was Mary Huntemuller Kirk (1896–1941), the former wife of Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, a French-born New York insurance broker, and a daughter of Henry Child Kirk, owner and manager of the Kirk Silversmith Co. of Baltimore, Maryland, and his wife, the former Edith Huntemuller.
A girlhood friend of Wallis Warfield, Mary Kirk was a bridesmaid at Warfield's first wedding and introduced her to Ernest Simpson in 1925; she also was the other woman with whom Simpson took a hotel suite in Berkshire in order to give his wife, Wallis, evidence of adultery to so she could bring divorce proceedings against him. Ernest Simpson and Mary Raffray were married in the Diamond Jubilee ballroom of the Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield, Connecticut, on 19 November 1937, six months after the groom's divorce from Wallis Simpson and three weeks after the bride's divorce from Raffray (whom she had married 29 July 1918).
Mary and Ernest Simpson had one child, Ernest Henry Child Simpson, who was born prematurely on 27 September 1939, and christened at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London. In June 1940, the Simpsons sent their infant son to the United States to escape the war. However, a month before Mary's death he returned with her to England. Mary Simpson died of breast cancer on 2 October 1941, at the couple's home in Wiltshire, England. Their son changed his name legally after 1958 to Aharon Solomons and became a soldier in the Israeli army. Aharon Solomons is an A.I.D.A Instructor Trainer and currently teaches in Eilat, Israel.
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