Cuthbert Ross Cuthbert (February 6, 1892 — January 19, 1971) was a Canada

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player who competed in the

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and

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

Early life

Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Northwest Territories. He travelled to Britain as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in

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during

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Career

At the

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, he was a member of the British ice hockey team which won the bronze medal. He then appeared at the

1926 Ice Hockey European Championship The 1926 Ice Hockey European Championship was the 11th edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation. The tournament was played between January 11, and January 19, 1926, in Davos, ...

and, two years later, finished fourth with the British team in the 1928 Olympic tournament in St. Moritz. At the club level, Cuthbert initially played for

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. He later joined the United Services Portsmouth Hockey Club.

Personal life

Cuthbert rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the

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, but retired from his military career in 1931 and travelled to the United States, where he married the Chicago soap heiress Beatrice Kirk in 1934. This marriage ended in divorce. He married again in 1964, at the age of 72, to the American fashion designer

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. She died the following year. Cuthbert spent his retirement in

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, where he died in 1971.

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* 1892 births 1971 deaths Canadian people of Scottish descent Ice hockey people from Calgary Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1928 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic ice hockey players for Great Britain Olympic medalists in ice hockey {{winter-Olympic-medalist-stub