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Euretta Cecilia de Cosson Rathbone (died 2003) was a British champion ski racer and a patron of the arts.[1]
Rettles, as she was known, was born in Cairo, Egypt to the British head of Egypt's public works Claude Augustin de Cosson and Euretta Kirkbride, a Philadelphian descendant of a long line of Philadelphia Quakers.[1][2] Her grandfather was a baron.[3] She took up skiing while in finishing school in Switzerland. She became captain of the British ski team and won several events.[1]
She won a combined event in 1939.[4] She suffered a concussion in competition on Baldy Mountain in 1941.[5]
She married art museum director Perry T. Rathbone in 1945.[1][6][7] She died in 2003 after being hit by a bus. She had three children and seven grandchildren.[1]
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