This article brings together all we have so far discovered about the short but action-packed life of Edith Kate née Halliwell, the second wife of the great railway contractor George Craig Saunders Pauling. We examine the many difficulties that beset her family background from which she emerged to become a renowned sportswoman and seasoned traveller in many parts of the world, as well as a highly regarded resident of the English villages of Effingham and Allexton.