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Captain Theodore Marburg, Jr. (November 27, 1893 - February 24, 1922) was a pioneer aviator. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
Biography
He was born on November 27, 1893 in France to Theodore Marburg, the United States Ambassador to Belgium from 1912 to 1914. He was educated at Oxford University. After graduation he joined the Royal Flying Corps in England. While on a mission to photograph the German lines, his plane crashed and a strut pierced his left knee, requiring the leg be amputated.
He married Baroness Gesell de Vavario of Belgium in Southampton, England in April 1916. She abandoned him and they divorced on August 15, 1921 in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. For his second marriage, he married the daughter of George Brown.
He took his own life on February 24, 1922 in Mexico. He was buried in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, Maryland.