Lloyd Carpenter Griscom
Luke E. Wright (as Ambassador to Japan)
November 4, 1872
Riverton, New Jersey, United States
February 8, 1959 (aged 86)
Thomasville, Georgia
Frances Griscom (sister)
Clement Griscom
Frances Canby Biddle
Early life[edit]
Lloyd Griscom was born on November 4, 1872, at Riverton, New Jersey. He was the son of shipping magnate Clement Griscom (1841–1912) and Frances Canby Biddle (1840–1923).[3] Among his siblings was Frances Griscom, an amateur golfer who won the 1900 U.S. Women's Amateur held at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York,[4] She and played in the 1898 Amateur at the Ardsley Club.[5]
He graduated in 1891 from the law department of University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Sigma Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity. Griscom continued his legal studies at the New York Law School.[3] He later received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907.[1]
On November 2, 1901, Griscom was married to Elizabeth Duer Bronson (1877–1914),[15] the daughter of lawyer Frederic Bronson.[16][17] Her mother, Sarah Gracie King,[18] was the granddaughter of U.S. Representative James Gore King and William Alexander Duer. Through Elizabeth's uncle, Frederick Gore King, she was the first cousin of Alice Gore King.[19] The Bronsons lived at 174 Madison Avenue[20] and had a country home, "Verna" in Southport, Connecticut[21] (which later became the Fairfield Country Day School).[22] Together, they were the parents of:[3][23]
After her death in 1914, he remarried to Audrey Margaret Elizabeth Crosse (1900–1975) in England on October 3, 1929.[14] Audrey was the daughter of Marlborough Crosse and the niece of C. E. Barnwell Ewins of Marston Trussell Hall in Leicestershire.[28] His best man at the wedding was Brig. Gen. Sir Charles Delmé-Radcliffe (who married the daughter of Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet), who was British military attaché at Rome while Griscom was envoy there.[14]
Griscom died of a stroke on February 8, 1959, at Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia while visiting his sister Frances who was a patient there.[29][30] After his death, his widow, who inherited the bulk of his estate including the Leon county Luna Plantation as well as the Tallahassee Democrat, which she ran from 1958 through 1965.[31]