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Winthrop W. Aldrich

Winthrop Williams Aldrich GBE (November 2, 1885 – February 25, 1974)[1] was an American banker and financier, scion of a prominent and powerful political family, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

His Excellency
Winthrop W. Aldrich
GBE

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Walter S. Gifford

John Hay Whitney

Winthrop Williams Aldrich

November 2, 1885
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

February 25, 1974 (aged 88)
New York City, U.S.

Harriet Alexander

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960 Fifth Avenue
Islesboro, Maine
Providence, Rhode Island

Harvard University

Banker

Early years[edit]

Aldrich was born in Rhode Island in 1885, to Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and the former Abigail Pearce Truman Chapman. He attended Harvard University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1907 and a J.D. degree in 1910. Among his ten siblings was brother Richard S. Aldrich, who served in Congress from 1923 to 1933,[2] and sisters Lucy Aldrich, an art collector, and Abby Aldrich, who became the wife of financer and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.[3]

Mary Aldrich (b. 1921), who married Robert Homans, a lawyer with the San Francisco law firm of Morrison, Holloway, Schuman & Clark.

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Harriet Aldrich (1922–2014), who married Dr. Edgar A. Bering Jr.[11]

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Lucy Truman Aldrich, who married David Wetmore Devens, a son Arthur Lithgow Devens III, in 1945. They divorced and she remarried to her first cousin, George Davenport Aldrich,[3] in 1971.[13] After his death, she married lawyer Francis Hooks Burr in 1979.[14]

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Alexander "Sam" Aldrich (1928–2017), who married Elizabeth Hollins Elliott and, later, Phyllis Williamson and served as the Commissioner of the Office of Parks and Recreation of New York State.[1][16]

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Elizabeth Brewster "Liberty" Aldrich, who married J. Woodward Redmond in 1946.[18]

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Winthrop W. Aldrich: Lawyer, Banker, Diplomat by Arthur M. Johnson. 1968. .

Harvard University

at the Rhode Island Historical Society.

Winthrop W. and Harriet A. Aldrich Papers

at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School

Winthrop W. Aldrich papers

at Harvard Business School

Winthrop W. Aldrich Collection

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Newspaper clippings about Winthrop W. Aldrich

at Find a Grave

Winthrop W. Aldrich