Johnnie Sedgwick

In the novel At Bertram's Hotel, Johnnie Sedgwick is one of the previous husbands of Bess Sedgwick. She married Johnnie after divorcing Lord Coniston. He seems to have been the love of her life. Johnnie subsequently broke his neck and died while steeplechasing. Thereafter, Bess married an American yacht owner Ridgway Becker.