Carroll Carstairs


Carroll Chevalier Carstairs MC was an American art dealer who served in the Grenadier Guards of the British Army during World War I.
He was a son of Charles Stewart Carstairs, a noted American art dealer who was chairman of the board of M. Knoedler, and his wife, the former Esther Holmes Hazeltine. He had three siblings: diplomatic attaché Charles Haseltine Carstairs, James Stewart Carstairs, an artist; and socialite Elizabeth Haseltine "Lily" Carstairs,.
Carstairs wrote the book A Generation Missing, his memoir of the conflict, which was published in 1930.
He married, 20 March 1924, Susan Burks Yuille. Susan Burks' sister was married to Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, and Susan Burks was the aunt of Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven. Carroll and Burks Carstairs had no children.