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Adams, Charles Francis
IV |
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1910-1999 |
Direct descendant of
President John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Spent
several years with his parents in St. Petersburg,
Russia. Harvard College. Partner in Paine, Webber,
Jackson, & Curtis banking firm 1937-1947. Director
of Raytheon 1938-1942. U.S. Naval Reserve with
active duty, commanding destroyer escorts in the
Atlantic & Pacific theaters 1942-1945. Commander in
chief of the Atlantic Fleet 1945-1947. President of
Raytheon (sales grew forty fold in his almost 40
years with the company) 1948-1960 & 1962-1964.
Chairman of Raytheon 1960-1962 & 1964-1972. Retired
as director of Raytheon in 1997. Director of the
First National Bank of Boston, the Gillette Company,
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Sheraton
Corporation, Bath Iron Works, Associated Industries
of Massachusetts, the Boston Chamber of Commerce,
Pan American World Airways, and the Massachusetts
Higher Education Assistance Corporation. Chairman of
the Board of Visitors of Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University. Trustee of the
Children's Hospital, the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, the Industrial School for Crippled
Children, the Massachusetts Humane Society, the
Naval War College Foundation and more. A fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Vice
President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. |
Acheson, Dean Gooderham |
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1893-1973 |
Yale Scroll & Key
1915. Harvard 1915-1918. Private secretary to the
Supreme Court Justice 1919-1921. Became Under
Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. U.S. Secretary of
State under Harry S. Truman 1949-1953. Accused of
being soft on Communism and had a dispute with
General Douglas MacArthur. Mccarthy saw him as one
the most dangerous Communists and believed that the
"Acheson group had almost hypnotic powers over
Truman". Member Council on Foreign Relations. His
son, David C. Acheson ended up in the 1943 Skull &
Bones class. |
Acton, Lord |
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alive |
Born in Shropshire,
England. Acton's family immigrated in 1948 to
Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where he was
educated at St. George's College, Salisbury. Later
he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in
modern history at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1989,
he took his seat in the House of Lords as the fourth
Lord Acton, dividing his time between Iowa and
London since his marriage to Patricia Nassif, a
clinical professor at the UI College of Law. Later,
the government of the United Kingdom put forth a
proposal to restructure the House of Lords. This
passed in November 1999, which resulted in the
abolition of Acton's hereditary peerage. However,
the Prime Minister appointed him as a Life Peer, and
Acton returned to the House of Lords in April. Acton
is also a writer whose articles have appeared in
many American periodicals, including The New York
Times Book Review, The North American Review,
British Heritage, the Christian Science Monitor, The
Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle. In
1995, Acton and his wife wrote a book on the legal
history of Iowa entitled, "To Go Free: A Treasury of
Iowa's Legal Heritage," published by Iowa State
University Press to commemorate Iowa's
sesquicentennial. He also received the Iowa State
Historical Society's Throne/Aldrich Award in 1995
for the best article on Iowa history published by
The Palimpset. His articles have appeared in The
Iowan and The Des Moines Register. His latest book
is "A Brit Among the Hawkeyes," published by Iowa
State University Press. Has spoken at the Iowa City
Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC), which is in the
neighborhood he often lives. He and his wife split
their time between Ceder Rapids and London. He is a
member of the Royal Africa Society and the Pilgrims
Society. Lord Acton is writing a book about one his
forefathers, Sir John Acton, who, according to him,
ruled Naples and Sicily in the late 18th and early
19th centuries. |
Adler, Julius Ochs
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1892-1955 |
His family started the
New York Times, received the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Purple Heart, the Silver Star, Star with
Oak Leaf Clusters, the French Legion of Honor and
the French Croix de Guerre for his achievements as
commander of a battalion of infantry on the Western
Front in France in WWI, as a General he commanded
the 77th Infantry Division, responsible for the
defense of Hawaii from 1941 to 1944. After World War
II, joined The New York Times as vice-president,
later to become general manager, publisher of the
Chattanooga Times, invited by General Eisenhower to
visit the liberated concentration camps in 1945,
which inspired him to write a bunch of articles on
his experiences, appointed as major general in the
Army Reserve in 1948. |
Aiken, Alfred Lawrence |
exec. committee |
1870-1946 |
Graduated from Yale in
1891, president Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
1914-1917, president and chairman National Shawmut
Bank of Boston 1918-1924, director New York Life
Insurance Co 1924-1936, president of New York Life
Insurance & Co. in 1936, trustee of Clark University
and Wellesley College, member Council on Foreign
Relations. |
Aldrich, Herbert I.
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unknown |
This name was
mentioned by J. Thorkelson, a U.S. Congressman from
Montana, in a speech to the U.S. House of
Representatives on August 20, 1940. |
Aldrich, Nelson
Wilmarth |
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1841-1915 |
Nelson W. Aldrich.
Private in the Rhode Island National Guard during
the American Civil War. Elected to Rhodes Island
city council 1869. Rhodes Island city council
president 1872-1873. Republican Congressman
1879-1881. Senator 1881-1911. His daughter marries
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. in 1901. In 1906
Aldrich is accused of taking huge bribes from
corporations in an article of Cosmopolitan. Attends
the Jekyll Island meeting on November 22, 1910.
Chairman Committee on Transportation Routes to the
Seaboard, Committee on Rules, Select Committee on
Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia,
Committee on Finance, and the National Monetary
Commission. Aldrich worked together with co-Pilgrim
and congressman/banker Edward Butterfield Vreeland
to establish the Federal Reserve. |
Aldrich, Winthrop
Williams |
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1885-1974 |
Winthrop W. Aldrich
was the uncle of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The
major stockholder in Equitable Trust Company (merged
with Chase National Bank in 1930). President of
Chase National Bank and later chairman of the board
from 1930 to 1953 (Chase National Bank eventually
became J.P. Morgan Chase). Ambassador to England
from 1950 to 1953 and gave a speech to the English
Pilgrims on March 19, 1953. Director of Westinghouse
Electric, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T),
International Paper, Discount Corporation of New
York, Metropolitan Life Insurance, and American
Society for the Control of Cancer. |
Aldrich, Malcolm Pratt
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born 1900 |
Yale Skull & Bones
1922. Cousin of Winthrop Aldrich. Head of the
Commonwealth Fund. |
Aldrich, Hulbert
Stratton |
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born 1907 |
Cousin of Winthrop
Aldrich, president of Greer School with mrs. David
Rockefeller (1942/1947), vice chairman of Chemical
Bank 1959-1972, director of Ametek Incorporated, IBM
World Trade Corporation, Empire Savings Bank, George
W. Rogers Construction Corporation, Peter Paul
Incorporated, president of Commonwealth Fund
(succeeded Pilgrim Edward S. Harkness), Royal Globe
Insurance Group and Hill Samuel Group Limited,
London. |
Alexander, Charles
Beatty |
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1849-1927 |
Grandson of a
co-founder of Princeton Theological Seminary,
trustee of Princeton University, married into the
Crocker fortune of 40 million (1888) dollars,
director of the International Banking Corporation,
Mercantile Trust Company; Equitable Trust Company,
Equitable Life Assurance, Society of the U.S.,
Tri-State Land Company, Windsor Trust, member of the
Society of the Cincinnati. |
Alexander, Henry Clay |
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unknown |
Studied at Vanderbilt
University and Yale where he graduated in 1923 and
1925, Trustee of Vanderbilt University, president
J.P. Morgan & Company, chairman Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of New York in 1960, director General
Motors & Johns-Manville Corporation |
Anderson, Arthur Marvin |
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died 1966 |
Director of Northern
Pacific Ry, director U.S. Steel Corporation,
vice-chairman J.P. Morgan & Company, has a ship
named after him. |
Angell, Ernest
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unknown |
Lived from about 1890
to the 1970s, attended Harvard in 1907, New York
lawyer, married Elizabeth Chapin of the American
Motors fortune, national chairman of the A.C.L.U.,
member of the International Commission of Jurists
meetings in Athens and New Delhi. |
Angelson, Mark A.
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alive |
Educated at Rutgers
College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and
at Rutgers Law School. Angelson began his career in
1975 as a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell. From 1982
through 1995, he practiced with Sidley & Austin,
serving as Co-Chair of International Operations and
Resident Managing Partner of the law firm's offices
in Singapore, New York and London. During this
period, he participated in the development of
substantial, notably successful law practices in
each of those cities, and served on the boards of
various multinational companies and not-for-profit
organizations. From 1996 until 2001, Mr. Angelson
served in various capacities, including as Executive
Deputy Chairman, at Big Flower Holdings (NYSE: BGF),
a printing and advertising services holding company,
and its successor, Vertis Holdings, Inc. At Big
Flower, he was involved in approximately 30 printing
industry acquisitions and related financings, and
the $2 billion leveraged recapitalization and sale
of control of the company to Thomas H. Lee Fund IV
and Evercore Capital Partners. Before assuming his
current position, Mr. Angelson served as Chief
Executive Officer of Moore Wallace Incorporated
(TSX, NYSE: MWI), the third largest printing company
in North America. He was a principal architect of
the merger between RR Donnelley and Moore Wallace,
and of the earlier merger between Moore Corporation
Limited (TSX, NYSE: MCL) and Wallace Computer
Services, Inc. (NYSE: WCS). Prior to joining Moore
as CEO, Mr. Angelson served as Moore's Non-Executive
Chairman and Lead Independent Director. Previously,
Mr. Angelson served as Deputy Chairman of Chancery
Lane Capital, the New York-based private equity
investment firm that led the Chancery Lane/GSC
Partners L.P. investment in Moore and recruited the
Moore management team. Today he is Chief Executive
Officer of Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Company (NYSE: RRD), the largest provider of
printing and print-related services in the world,
with approximately 43,000 employees, annual revenues
of approximately $8 billion, nearly 600 locations
around the globe and more than 40,000 customer
relationships. The company provides these services
to the catalog, retail, magazine, book, directory,
advertising, financial, healthcare,
telecommunications, automotive and many other
industries. He is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (New York), a Fellow of the Royal Society
for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures &
Commerce (London), a Trustee of Northwestern
University, a member of the Executive Committee of
the Board of the Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, and a member of the Pilgrims of Great
Britain, the Yale Club of New York City, The
Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club and the
Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. |
Annenberg, Walter H.
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1908-2002 |
Son of Moses
Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The story of Moses & Max (older brother) Annenberg
is a tale of a hardworking immigrants and financial
geniuses who got their start working alongside
violent Chicago gangsters while employed by
newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst at the turn
of the last century. After some time, the owner of
the Tribune, Bertie McCormick, decided to hire Moses
Annenberg away from Hearst. For a while, the
Annenberg brothers were sending out thugs to battle
each other. Fifteen years later, Max Annenberg was
alleged to be an associate and friend of Chicago
crime boss Al Capone. In 1924, Moses Annenberg got
involved with a racing news service in Chicago and
Milwaukee. Soon there were reports that those who
didn't take the Annenberg race wire service were
themselves the victims of beatings, fire bombings
and, on occasion, murder. The crime syndicates had
come to be dependent on Moses Annenberg. Without his
service they couldn't operate their illegal gambling
rackets. In 1938, the Secretary of the Interior,
Harold Ickes, traveled from Washington D.C. to give
a speech in Philadelphia condemning Moses Annenberg,
who, at that time, was backing the Republican
candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. Ickes
charged it was Annenberg's violent tactics during
the Chicago newspaper wars that inspired gangsters
like Al Capone. Ickes said that "the hiring of Moses
Annenberg by Hearst was the beginning of the
subsequent flood of lawlessness that almost engulfed
law enforcement in the United States." Moses,
Walter, and 2 other business associates were
indicted in 1939 for evading more than $2 million in
taxes and another $3 million in penalties and
interest. Moses was later separately indicted for
conspiring to bribe a Philadelphia detective. In
April 1940, Moses Annenberg agreed to plead guilty
to one count -- "willfully" evading $1,217,296 --
and to pay almost $9 million in fines and penalties.
In exchange for his plea the government agreed to
drop all charges against his son, Walter Annenberg.
In the 1940s, Walter Annenberg established Triangle
Broadcasting, which at its peak controlled 6 AM
radio stations, 6 FM radio stations, and 6 TV
stations. He is also the founder and owner of
Triangle Publications, which owned the Philadelphia
Inquirer, the Daily News, TV Guide and Seventeen
Magazine. Received the Alfred I. DuPont Award
(Pilgrim) in 1951. Received the Marshall Field Award
(Pilgrim) in 1958. Founded The Annenberg School for
Communication at The University of Pennsylvania in
1958. Ambassador to England 1969-1974. Founded The
Annenberg School for Communication at the University
of Southern California in 1971. In 1988, News Corp.
acquired Triangle Publications, including TV Guide.
Founder-trustee and Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho
Mirage, California. Annenberg also served as Trustee
of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships and the
Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowships. He was
Emeritus Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The University of
Pennsylvania and The Peddie School. Annenberg
received honorary degrees from many international
universities. Annenberg was named Honorary Knight
Commander of the Order of the British Empire by
Queen Elizabeth II. He was also named Officer of the
French Legion of Honor, and presented with the Order
of Merit of the Republic of Italy. (received dozens
of other awards and honors) He was a member of the
Associated Press, the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, International Press Institute, National
Press Club, Overseas Press Club, American Newspaper
Publishers Association, Sigma Delta Chi, the
International Arts-Medicine Association, and the
Inter-American Press Association. Has been awarded
by the ADL. A former Commander of the United States
Naval Reserve, Annenberg also was a member of the
Navy League of the U.S. He also has his own
foundation, the Annenberg Foundation. Walter
Annenberg was a generous philanthropist who gave
millions to universities, art museums, charities and
PBS. He was a friend to kings and presidents. |
Armour, Norman |
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1887-1982 |
Embassy secretary at
Petrograd (then the capital of Russia) 1916-1918,
ambassador to Haiti 1932-1935, Canada 1935-1938,
Chile 1938-1939, Argentina 1939-1944, Spain 1945,
Venezuela 1950-1951 and Guatemala 1954-1955. Married
European nobility in the form of Princess Myra
Kondacheff, member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. |
Armstrong, Anne Legendre
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1927-alive |
Born in New Orleans.
Daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans coffee
merchant. Graduated from Vassar College. She married
Tobin Armstrong, a Texas cattle rancher, in 1950,
whom she met in 1942 on the 825,000 acre King Ranch.
The King Ranch has been home to many international
power elites including Prince Charles and Prince
Johannes von Thurn und Taxis. Tobin was close
friends with the Bushes. She served as vice chairman
of the Texas Republican Party from 1966 to 1968. In
1971 and 1972, she was cochairman of the Republican
National Committee. As counselor to the President,
Armstrong was a member of the president's Domestic
Council, the Council on Wage and Price Stability,
and the Commission on the Organization of Government
for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. First American
woman ambassador to Great Britain from 1976 to 1977.
In 1977, Prince Charles visited the Armstrong Ranch
to play polo with Anne's husband. Director of
American Express (with Henry Kissinger and Vernon
Jordan), Boise Cascade, General Motors, and
Halliburton (with Cheney). She chaired the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from
1982 to 1990 and was a trustee of Southern Methodist
University and the Smithsonian Institution. She also
chaired the Georgetown University's Center for
Strategic and International Studies advisory board.
|
Astor, William Waldorf |
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1848-1919 |
Educated in Germany
and in Italy and at the Columbia law school, member
of the NY state assembly 1878-1879, senator
1880-1881, minister to Italy 1881–1885, heir to
about 100 million dollars, reversed the family
immigration by returning to England in 1890 and
bought some large real estate, purchased the Pall
Mall Gazette 1893, purchased the London Sunday
Observer 1911, was made a baron in 1916 and a
viscount (of Hever) in 1917, his elder son became
leader of Tory democracy, his younger son bought a
large share in The Times of London. His son, Waldorf
Astor (unconfirmed Pilgrims member), was a chairman
of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
from 1935 to 1949 and had helped to establish it. |
Astor, William Vincent
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1891-1959 |
Heir of the John Jacob
Astor fortune, Franklin D. Roosevelt supporter in
1932, New Deal supporter after WWII, director of
Chase National Bank, Western Union Telegraph
Company, Great Northern Railway Company, the United
States Lines, New York Post-Graduate Medical School
and Hospital and other institutions and
corporations, trustee of the New York Public Library
and the New York Zoological Society, governor of New
York Hospital, staff officer in the Navy during both
World Wars, seemed to have a bit of competition from
the English branch of the family. (He and his former
wives had themselves or married to Huntingtons and
Whitneys) |
Astor, (Roberta) Brooke
Russell |
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1902-alive |
Daughter of USMC
General John Henry Russell, wife of Vincent Astor,
president Vincent Astor Foundation from 1959 and on,
which gave away about 195 million in all, author of
2 fiction books. |
Astor, Francis David
Langhorne |
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1912-2001 |
Educated at Eton
College he went on to Oxford University where he
suffered a nervous breakdown and left university in
1933 without obtaining a degree, psycho-analyzed by
Anna Freud, at Oxford in 1931 he met Adam von Trott
zu Solz, later executed for the role he played in a
failed assassination of Hitler, who had a lot of
influence on him, during World War II David Astor
was wounded in France, In 1936, he joined the
Yorkshire Post newspaper where he worked for a year
then joined his father's newspaper, The Observer
where he would serve as editor for 27 years, He
warned of the dangers of big government and of big
business, influenced by his friend and employee of
The Observer, George Orwell, he supposedly was
anti-big government, very critical of corrupt
politicians, pro-blacks, pro-life, etc, in 1977 The
Observer was sold to Robert O. Anderson, the
American owner of the Atlantic Richfield oil
company. (had lots of aggressive competition) |
Astor, Gavin |
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1918-1984 |
2nd Baron Astor of
Hever, controlling shareholder Times Publishing Co.
Ltd. This company controlled the The Times Book Co.
Ltd., Issuing House Year Book Ltd., St. Paul's
Engineering Ltd., The Review (Insurance) Ltd., The
Times Pension Trusts Ltd., The Times London
Incorporated. and The Gardeners' Chronicle Ltd.
Director Times Publishing Co. Ltd. 1952-1959,
chairman Times Publishing Co. Ltd. 1959-1966. |
Astor, John Jacob, 8th |
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1946-alive |
Better known under 3rd
Baron Astor of Hever, educated at Eton College,
Birkshire (England), Lieutenant in 1966 in the
service of the The Life Guards, managing director of
Honon et Cie in 1982, managing director of Astor
France in 1989, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent in 1996,
Chief Whip of the House of Lords 1998. Freemason.
|
Attlee, Clement Richard
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1883-1967 |
Educated at Oxford, he
was called to the bar in 1905. His early experience
as a social worker in London's East End led to his
decision to give up law and devote his life to
social improvement through politics. In 1907 he
joined the Fabian Society and soon afterward the
Labour party. He was a lecturer in social science at
the London School of Economics, and, after service
in World War I, he became (1919) the first Labour
mayor of Stepney. Attlee entered Parliament in 1922.
In 1927 he visited India as a member of the Simon
commission and was converted to views that strongly
favored Indian self-government. He joined the Labour
government in 1930 but resigned in 1931 when Ramsay
MacDonald formed the National government. As leader
of the Labour party from 1935, Attlee was an
outspoken critic of Conservative foreign policy,
objecting particularly to the government's failure
to intervene in the Spanish civil war. During World
War II he served (1940–45) in Winston Churchill's
coalition cabinet, and on Labour's electoral victory
in 1945 he became prime minister. Under Attlee's
leadership, the Bank of England, the gas,
electricity, coal, and iron and steel industries,
and the railways were nationalized. His government
also enacted considerable social reforms, including
the National Health Service. Independence was
granted to Burma (Myanmar), India, Pakistan, Ceylon
(Sri Lanka), and Palestine, and Britain allied
itself closely with the United States in the cold
war confrontation with the Soviet Union. The postwar
economic crisis required stringent economic and
financial controls, which reduced support for the
government. Labour won the 1950 general election by
a narrow margin, but in 1951, Attlee decided to go
to the country again and was defeated. He was leader
of the opposition until his retirement in 1955, when
he received the title of Earl Attlee. |
Bache, Jules Semon |
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1861-1944 |
American banker and
art collector who made an enormous fortune on
Wallstreet, organized the banking firm of J. S.
Bache and Company, president and treasurer of Dome
Mines Limited, director of Chrysler, Lake Superior
Railroad, Louisiana Oil Refining, Tennessee Copper &
Chemical, Southern Agricultural Company, U.S.
Industrial Alcohol Company, New River Collieries,
Cuba Distilling, American Indemnity, Anniston City
Land, New Amsterdam Casualty, Ann Arbor Railroad,
Empire Trust Company and others, member Council on
Foreign Relations. |
Bail, Ancell H.
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unknown |
This name was
mentioned by J. Thorkelson, U.S. Congressman from
Montana, in a speech to the U.S. House of
Representatives on August 20, 1940. More info is not
available. |
Baker, George Fisher |
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1840-1931 |
Harvard. Fortune of
the Baker family estimated at 500 million in 1924
and later grew to about a billion dollars. Chairman
of Manhattan's First National Bank, First Security
Co., and had directorships in at least 50 other
companies. Close associate of J.P. Morgan who wanted
him on every board of the companies he financed.
Trustee of the Frick Collection (Frick was an
associate of Andrew Mellon and was waging a war on
his slave-workers). Donated $2,000,000 to Henry
Pomeroy Davison (Pilgrim) when he needed money for
Red Cross work during WWI. One of the largest
philanthropist ever and never appeared in public. |
Baker, George Fisher
III |
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alive |
Great-grandson of the
wealthy banker George Fisher Baker, Harvard, general
partner of Baker, Nye Investments L.P. in New York
City, member Woods Hole Oceanographic, member,
director of The American Institute for Cognitive
Therapy, director Quebec-Labrador
Foundation/Atlantic Center for the Environment
(QLF), philanthropist. |
Baker, James Addison
III |
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1930-alive |
Graduated from
Princeton University in 1952. Attended Cap & Gown
events, according to Kay Griggs, just as Allen
Dulles, William Colby, Frank Carlucci, James Baker,
George Griggs, and George P. Shultz (August 3, 2005,
Rense). Houston lawyer. Friend of the Bushes.
Undersecretary of commerce 1975–1976. Deputy manager
of the 1976 and 1980 Ford and Bush presidential
campaigns. Joined the Reagan administration in 1981.
White House chief of staff 1981–1985. Treasury
secretary 1985–1988. Planned the 1988 campaign that
won George H.W. Bush the presidency. Secretary of
State 1989–1992. Played a prominent role in the Gulf
crisis and the subsequent search for a Middle East
peace settlement. Again White House Chief of Staff
1992-1993. United Nations special envoy to try and
broker a peace settlement for the disputed territory
of Western Sahara 1997. As an adviser to George W.
Bush in the November 2000 presidential elections, he
was influential in helping Bush secure the
presidency by manoeuvring the disputed vote count in
Florida to the Republican-leaning Supreme Court.
Baker was the manager of the foreign debts of
occupied Iraq since 2003. Senior counselor for the
Carlyle Group and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. Also a member of the Atlantic Council of
the United States, the Bohemian Grove, and the
Pilgrims Society. Honorary trustee of the American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies. |
Ball, George Wildman |
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1909-1994 |
Born on December 19,
1909 in Des Moines, Iowa. Grew up in Des Moines and
Evanston, Illinois, where the family moved in 1922
after his father received a promotion to the
Standard Oil Company headquarters located in
Chicago. Graduated at the top of his class from
Northwestern Law School in 1933. The law school dean
nominated him for a position in the General
Counsel's Office, under the direction of Herman
Oliphant, in the newly established Farm Credit
Administration. Ball moved to the Treasury
Department in November 1933 upon the appointment of
Henry Morgenthau (Pilgrims) as Secretary of the
Treasury. When Franklin D. Roosevelt named
Morgenthau to this post, Morgenthau brought along
Oliphant as his legal advisor, and he, in turn,
brought along Ball. Worked here from 1933-1935.
Despite working on major New Deal policies, Ball
felt his law training was lacking and returned to
the Midwest in 1935 to "master the profession of
law." He joined a Chicago law firm where he served
as a tax attorney before moving to the prestigious
firm of Sidley, McPherson, Austin & Harper in 1939.
Ball's work involved the reorganization of railroads
but more defining was the close relationship he
developed with junior partner Adlai Stevenson while
at the firm. It was also during this time that Ball
started to become interested in foreign affairs. He
began to attend Friday luncheons hosted by the
Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, which Stevenson
chaired. Associate position in the General Counsel's
Office of the Lend-Lease Administration under the
guidance of Oscar Cox 1942-1944. Director of the
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in London 1944-1945.
Ball was specifically responsible for assessing the
effectiveness of the Allied bombing of German cities
and transportation systems. In May 1945, Ball and
John Kenneth Galbraith debriefed Albert Speer, the
Nazi minister for armaments and war production, in
an effort to confirm their speculations on the
ineffectiveness of Allied bombings. Ball was awarded
a Medal of Freedom for this work. General Counsel
for the French Supply Council in Washington
1945-1946. Ball was finally able to join his firm,
Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox in July 1946.
Monnet retained the firm to represent the French
Government, and Ball soon found himself conferring
with Monnet's deputy Robert Marjolin on the creation
of the Organization for European Economic
Cooperation (OEEC, the later OECD). He continued to
work with Monnet on establishing a European economic
plan throughout 1949, and this preliminary work laid
the foundation for the formation of the European
Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). After the
ratification of the Treaty of Paris in August 1952,
Ball was retained as the ECSC's adviser and later
served as an adviser to the European Atomic Energy
Community (Euratom) and the European Economic
Community (EEC). Talked Adlai Stevenson into running
for president twice and acted as his campaign
advisor (James P. Warburg was one of his aides).
Attended the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and
became part of its steering committee. Still
attended Bilderberg in 1993, the year before his
death. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
under JFK 1961-1962. Under Secretary of State
1962-1966. In his new position, Ball worked on
issues regarding trade and tariffs, economic
affairs, the Congo, and European integration. He
worked closely with Secretary of State Dean Rusk
(Rhodes Scholar; Pilgrims; chair Rockefeller
Foundation; SMOM) and dealt directly with the
President on these matters. Very much opposed to the
Vietnam war and decided to resign because of it in
1966. Partner in Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb
1966-1968. Served as chair of the committee
investigating the U.S.S. Pueblo incident in 1968.
Permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations
1968. Fearing a Nixon victory in the presidential
election, Ball resigned in September to campaign for
his friend Hubert Humphrey. Senior managing director
and partner in Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb 1969-1982.
Chairman of the in 1975 launched Washington
Institute for the Study of Conflict (WISC), of which
its English branch stood in close contact with Le
Cercle. Unofficial advisor to Jimmy Carter
1977-1981. Member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, Trilateral Commission, and Pilgrims
Society. Wrote a couple of books and articles on
foreign affairs. His son, Alan Ball, is said to have
been an MI5 operative and was a chairman of Tiny
Rowland's Lonrho. Rowland worked with loads of
Middle-Eastern terrorists, was a member of Le
Cercle, and had MI6 agents like Nicholas Elliott on
his board. In the 1990 book 'One Nation under
Israel', Ball is quoted as having said: "When
leading members of the American Jewish community
give [Israel’s] government uncritical and
unqualified approbation and encouragement for
whatever it chooses to do, while striving so far as
possible to overwhelm any criticism of its actions
in Congress and in the public media, they are, in my
view, doing neither themselves nor the U.S. a
favor…They’ve got one thing going for them. Most
people are terribly concerned not to be accused of
being anti-Semitic, and the lobby so often equates
criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. They keep
pounding away at that theme, and people are deterred
from speaking out." |
Barber, Charles Finch |
|
unknown |
CEO of American
Smelting & refining, director Americas Society,
member Council on Foreign Relations. |
Barco, James William
|
|
born 1916 |
American ambassador to
the United Nations 1960-1961, vice-chairman Atlantic
Council of the United States, trustee American
University in Cairo, member Council on Foreign
Relations. |
Barlow, Sir Clement
Anderson Montague |
|
1868-1951 |
Parliamentary
Secretary of Labor. Involved with British empire
building. |
Barratt, J. Arthur |
|
unknown |
Organized the St.
Louis World Fair and became Director General of the
Pan American Union in Washington, the building for
which was provided by Pilgrim Society member Andrew
Carnegie. |
Bartlett,
Edmund |
|
unknown |
Chairman Schroder’s
Limited NY. |
Bayne, Stephen F., Jr |
|
unknown |
Married Lucie Culver
Gould in 1934, appeared on 1969 Pilgrims list.
Possibly a bishop. |
Beck, James M. |
|
1861-1936 |
Graduated Moravian
College in Bethlehem. After an apprenticeship in law
he was admitted to the bar in 1884 and entered the
law office of William F. Harrity, with whom he
formed a law partnership in 1891. Admitted to the
bar of New York City in 1903, and in 1922 to the bar
of England, he rose to be one of America's leading
corporate lawyers. Assistant United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1888-1892,
United States Attorney 1896-1900, joined the New
York law firm of Shearman and Sterling, continued
his law practices in New York, Philadelphia and
Washington until 1921, appointed Solicitor General
of the U.S. 1921-1925. As a Congressman he was the
leading spokesman in the campaign against
Prohibition and he tried to fight the principles and
legislation of the New Deal. Reelected three
consecutive times, he resigned in 1934. Beck was one
of the first Americans to make a case for the
Entente, the alliance between Great Britain, France,
and Russia prior to World War I. His most famous
book, "The Constitution of the United States"
(1924), sold over fifty thousand copies. |
Bell, Elliott V. |
|
unknown |
Reporter for The New
York Times when the great depression hit in 1929,
trustee Brookings Institution, director of Chase
Manhattan Bank, treasurer Council on Foreign
Relations 1952-1964, director Council on Foreign
Relations 1953-1966, vice president and trustee John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1965-1972,
chairman McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, editor and
publisher Business Week. |
Belmont, August, Jr. |
|
1851-1924 |
He was a son of August
Belmont, the Rothschild agent that funded the North
during the American civil war. The younger August
Belmont was an 1875 graduate of Harvard University,
served as director of the National Park Bank, and
was an avid thoroughbred racing fan (owned Man
O'War, one of the most famous race horses).
Following the United States' entry into World War I,
Belmont, at age 65, volunteered to assist and was
sent to France by the U.S. Army. His widow Eleanor
Robson Belmont died at 100 in 1979. |
Benkard, Franklin
Bartlett |
|
1902-1977 |
He was graduated in
1925 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, with his
A.B. degree. He was graduated in 1928 at Colombia
Law School with his L.L.B. degree. Joined Kelly Drye
Newhall & Maginnis, New York in 1925. He was made a
partner with Kelly Drye & Warren in 1941. He was
director and treasurer of the Julliard School of
Music from 1941 to 1977. He was appointed Associate
Government Appeal Agent in 1944 Government Appeal
Agent in 1945. He was in the Coast Guard Reserve
patrolling the docks in New Jersey at night. After
1950, he became active in Head of the Harbor and did
much to presence the zoning regulations. He was
director of the Midnight Mission Society (an
organization who helped 'unfortunate girls' i.e.
unwed mothers). He was a member of: The Century
Association Knickerbocker Club Bar, the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar
Association, and the New York State Bar Association.
Also a member of Holland Lodge No. 8 F. and A.M.,
the New York State Society of the Cincinnati, the
Pilgrims of the United States, St Nicholas Society
of the City of New York, and the Society of the
Mayflower Descendants. |
Bennet, Courtenay
Walter |
|
unknown |
British Consul at New
York in 1908. |
Benton, William |
|
1900-1973 |
Graduated from Yale
University in 1921, part-time vice president of the
University of Chicago 1937-1945, chairman
Encyclopedia Britannica 1943-1973, assistant
Secretary of State 1945-1947 (active in organizing
the United Nations), Democrat senator 1949-1953,
United States ambassador to (United Nations) UNESCO
in Paris 1963-1968, trustee of University of
Chicago, trustee of several schools and colleges. |
Beresford, Charles
William de la Poer |
co-founder |
1846-1919 |
Baron. Became a Navy
commander in 1875. Sat in Parliament as a
Conservative 1875-1880. Bombarded Alexandria, Egypt
in 1882. Aide-de-camp to the Prince of Wales
1875-1876. Accompanying him on a visit to India,
became a close personal friend of King Edward VII.
Again in Parliament 1885-1888 and resigned under
protest, authored “The Break-up of China” (1899),
his brother was Military Attaché at the British
Embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1898-1903. In
1897 Beresford was promoted to rear-admiral and
again entered Parliament, this time representing
York. He retained this seat until 1900, although he
spent much of his time in China representing the
Associated Chambers of Commerce, and from 1900
onwards was second in command of the Mediterranean
fleet. He returned to Parliament in 1902, this time
for Woolwich, but resigned in 1906 when he was
promoted to admiral and appointed chief of the
Channel Fleet. He was in command of the
Mediterranean Fleet from 1905 until 1907. The first
Pilgrim dinner in New York was held in his honor. |
Bernstein, Leonard
|
|
1918-1990 |
A well-known musical
conductor, spoke these words about the 1963 Kennedy
assassination on November 24, 1980, as written down
by the Associated Press: "We don’t dare confront the
implications. I think we’re all agreed there was a
conspiracy and we don’t want to know. It involves
such a powerful high force in what we call the high
places, if we do know, everything might fall apart." |
Biddle, David H.
|
|
unknown |
unknown |
Biddle, Francis Beverly |
|
1886-1968 |
Secretary to Associate
Justice O. W. Holmes 1912, became a successful
corporation lawyer, chairman National Labor
Relations Board 1934-1935, director Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia 1938-1939, appellate judge
National Labor Relations Board 1939-1940, Attorney
General of U.S. 1941-1945, U.S. judge for the trial
of war criminals at Nuremberg 1945-1946.
|
Biddle, Anthony J.
Drexel, Jr. |
|
1897-1961 |
Attended the Saint
Paul's School in New Hampshire and later Temple
University, rose in rank from private to captain
during WWI, Minister to Norway 1934-1937, Ambassador
to Poland in 1937, deputy ambassador to France after
the Germans started invading Poland, US Ambassador
to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, The Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Greece, Luxembourg, and Yugoslavia, who were
in exile in London (considered to be one of the most
important jobs during WWII) 1941-1944, resumed
active duty in the Army as a Lt. Colonel, rising to
the rank of Brigadier General in 1951. During those
years he worked closely with General Eisenhower as
deputy chief of SHAEF and as a representative to
EUCOM and SHAPE. The 1950s found Biddle serving as
Adjutant General of the State of Pennsylvania, on
numerous Pennsylvania state boards and commissions,
and as a trustee at Temple University. In 1961
President John F. Kennedy chose Biddle for his last
diplomatic position, that of Ambassador to Spain,
where he served until his death. |
Bigelow, Robert W.
|
|
unknown |
unknown |
Bingham, Robert Worth
|
|
1871-1937 |
A member of a North
Carolina family of aristocratic pretensions. Robert
Worth Bingham rose to great heights as a newspaper
publisher, political leader, philanthropist, and
ambassador to Great Britain (1933-1937), but his
life is surrounded by controversy to this day.
Charges that he contributed to the death of his
second wife (the richest widow alive at the time -
of magnate Henry Flagler), an heiress whose bequest
of five million dollars helped purchase the
Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, followed him
to the grave. For three quarters of a century the
history of the Bingham family of Louisville,
Kentucky, has been one of tragedy and controversy as
well as wealth, power, and prestige. The breakup of
the Bingham dynasty in 1986, vividly chronicled on
CBS television's "Sixty Minutes" generated a flurry
of books and articles on Bingham and his family,
much of it portraying Bingham as a villain. In some
accounts, Bingham drove his first wife to suicide
and gave syphilis to the second before murdering her
to gain control of her inheritance. Member American
Bar Association; Society of Colonial Wars; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of the American Revolution;
Alpha Tau Omega; Phi Beta Kappa. |
Bingham, Thomas Henry
|
|
1934-alive |
After the 1992
collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (BCCI), Lord Bingham of Cornhill was
appointed to head an official inquiry into why the
Bank of England failed to find out about the massive
drug laundering going on at this bank. Bingham and a
U.S. Senate inquiry castigated the Bank of England
for its failures of supervision, but didn't conclude
anything was done on purpose. Bingham was a member
of the Privy Council since 1986, chairman Royal
Commission on Historical Manuscripts since 1994,
trustee Pilgrim Trust (founded by Pilgrim Edward S.
Harkness in 1930), president Seckford Foundation,
member Advisory Council on Public Records, the Magna
Carta Trust and the British Records Association,
Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain 1996-2000. In
2002 wanted to legalize Cannabis. Became a member of
the Order of the Garter in 2005. |
Bissell, Pelham Saint
George |
|
1887-1943 |
President of the Sons
of the Revolution, council of the Society of
Colonial Wars, past commander, American Legion,
Judge Advocate, Veterans of Foreign Wars and member
of the League of Nations, served on the legislative
committee of the Citizens' Union, vice-chairman of
the Mayor's Fraternal Committee in 1922, president
Justice of the New York Municipal Court 1934-1943. |
Black, Eugene Robert |
|
1898-1991 |
Yale Phi Beta Kappa,
officer in the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic during WWI,
vice-president Chase National Bank, president
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 1928-1934, chairman
Federal Reserve System 1933-1934, president World
Bank 1949-1962, member Council on Foreign Relations,
visitor of Bilderberg, trustee Ford Foundation in
1967, chairman Brookings Institution 1962-1968. |
Bobst, Elmer Holmes |
|
1885-1978 |
Re-organizer and head
of the The American Cancer Society beginning in
1944. Chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical, CEO
of the New Jersey pharmaceutical giant Warner
Chilcott, and considered an architect of the modern
pharmaceutical industry. He has also been the
president of La Roche, a pharmaceutical company he
admitted was involved in illegally selling morphine
to the underworld. In the seventies, Pope John Paul
II Center for Prayer and Study for Peace was located
on his estate. Directors of this center were Kurt
Waldheim (Secretary General of the United Nations,
ex-nazi war criminal, friend of Arnold
Schwarzenegger), Cyrus Vance (Secretary of State,
Pilgrim) and J. Peter Grace (Pilgrim, head of the
Knights of Malta in the United States). Bobst
himself was a member of the Knights of Malta. Bobst
once wrote to his close friend Richard Nixon (who
started the 'War on Cancer' in 1971), "If this
beloved country of ours ever falls apart, the blame
rightly should be attributed to the malicious action
of Jews." Bobst's granddaughters and
great-granddaughters have accused him of sexually
abusing them. All this didn't prevent that a huge
library would be named after him. |
Boron, Robert Lew
|
|
unknown |
unknown |
Boucher, Richard A.
|
|
1951-alive |
He entered the Foreign
Service in 1977. After studying Chinese, he served
from 1979 to 1980 at the U.S. Consulate General in
Guangzhou. In Washington he then worked in the State
Department's Economic Bureau and on the China Desk,
and returned to China with his wife from 1984 to
1986 as Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S.
Consulate General in Shanghai. Upon his return to
Washington in July 1986, he served as a Senior Watch
Officer in the State Department's Operations Center.
From August 1987 to March 1989, he worked as Deputy
Director of the Office of European Security and
Political Affairs. He started as Deputy Press
Spokesman for the State Department under Secretary
Baker in March 1989 and became Spokesman under
Secretary Eagleburger in August 1992. Secretary
Christopher asked him to continue as Spokesman until
June 1993. United States Ambassador to Cyprus from
1993 to 1996. United States Consul General in Hong
Kong 1996-1999. Spoke to the Asia Society on March
24, 1998. US Senior Official for APEC, the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, since July 1999.
Spoke to the London Pilgrims on November 28, 2002.
Has repeatedly condemned Israel's practice of
killing terrorists and instead called for
negotiations to settle the Palestinian-Israeli
dispute. Supported the 2003 war against Iraq because
it wasn't cooperating with the sactions. Member of
the Bohemian Grove.
|
Brandi, Frederic H. |
|
unknown |
Father was a top coal
executive in the German Steel Trust. Moved from
Germany to the United States in 1926. CEO of Dillon,
Read & Co. in the 1950s and 1960s, up until 1971. He
was replaced by Nicholas Brady of the Bohemian Grove
Mandalay camp at that time. Brandi was also a member
of the Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay. |
Brewster, Kingman, Jr. |
|
1919-1988 |
Graduated from Yale in
1941, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News.
His junior year, he turned down an offer of
membership in Skull and Bones. Brewster's first job
in 1941 was as a special assistant in the
governmental office of Nelson Rockefeller. In 1948,
he received his law degree from Harvard Law School.
After teaching at Harvard Law School from 1950 to
1960, he accepted the post of Provost at Yale,
serving from 1960 to 1963. President of Yale from
1963 to 1977. His presidency was marked by the Black
Panther trial and the admission of women as
undergraduates. After leaving Yale, he served as
U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James ( the
United Kingdom) from 1977 to 1981 and later was
Master of University College, Oxford, serving from
1986 until his death there in 1988. He was a member
of the Century Association and the Council on
Foreign Relations. |
Brownlie, Ian G.M.
|
|
1931-2002 |
He graduated from St.
Paul’s School in Garden City, N.Y., and the
Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. In 1962, he
earned an M.B.A. from NYU’s Business School.
Brownlie served in the Marine Corps from 1954–56 and
retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a captain.
Professionally, he worked in real estate,
specializing in commercial leasing, beginning his
career with Brown, Harris & Stevens and was later
affiliated with the Joseph F. Bernstein Co. He
became a principal with Wm. A. White & Sons, which
became Wm. A. White/Tishman East and was
subsequently sold to Grubb & Ellis. Brownlie was a
member of the Gardiner’s Bay Country Club, Shelter
Island Yacht Club, the Union League Club of New
York, St. Anthony Hall of New York, Inc., and the
Pilgrims of the United States. He was active in
politics in the Village of Dering Harbor, Inc.,
serving in various capacities — trustee, deputy
mayor, and mayor (1970–98). |
Bryce, Viscount James |
president |
1838-1922 |
In 1886 he was made
under secretary for foreign affairs; in 1892 he
joined the cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster; in 1894 he was President of the Board of
Trade, and acted as chairman of the royal commission
on secondary education; and in Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet in 1905 he was made
chief secretary for Ireland; but in February 1907 he
was appointed British ambassador at Washington, D.C.
(until 1913) and took leave of party politics, his
last political act being a speech outlining what was
then the government scheme for university reform in
Dublin, a scheme which was promptly discarded by his
successor Augustine Birrell. Wrote a few books
including "The American Commonwealth" (1888). In
1897, after a visit to South Africa, he published a
volume of Impressions of that country, which had
considerable weight in Liberal circles when the Boer
War was being discussed. Meanwhile his academic
honours from home and foreign universities
multiplied, and he became a fellow of the Royal
Society in 1894. In earlier life he was a notable
mountain-climber, ascending Mount Ararat in 1876,
and publishing a volume on Transcaucasia and Ararat
in 1877; in 1899-1901 he was president of the Alpine
Club. He was ennobled in 1914, becoming 1st Viscount
Bryce. Following the outbreak of the First World
War, Lord Bryce was appointed by Herbert Asquith to
report on alleged German atrocities in Belgium. The
report was published in 1915, and was damning of
German behavior; Lord Bryce's reputation in America
was important in influencing American opinion toward
Germany before their entry into the war. Bryce was
acquainted with the Vanderbilts, and had detailed
documents about the 1915 Armenian extermination by
the Turks. (Some have argued in the past century
that these local tension were exploited by Grand
Orient Masons, as to give the French Rothschilds
unhampered access to the Baku oil fields.) |
Bristol, Lee Hasting |
|
unknown |
Clergyman,
vice-president (in 1932) and president of
Bristol-Myers Inc., president of the Association of
National Advertisers. |
Brittain III, Alfred
|
|
unknown |
Director Bankers Trust
Company Director since 1966, chairman of the board
of Bankers Trust New York Corporation and Bankers
Trust Company 1975-1987, member of the Audit,
Compensation and Corporate Employee Investment
Committees, trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, member Council on Foreign
Relations. |
Brittain, Sir Harry |
co-founder & chairman |
1873-1974 |
Educated at Repton and
Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA
and an MA in law. Called to the Bar in 1897 but only
practiced for a week before retiring from law in
favour of business and journalism. Worked on the
staff of both the Standard and the Evening Standard.
Co-founded the Pilgrims Society in London and New
York in 1902 and 1903, and became the first chairman
of the UK Pilgrims. Secretary to Sir C. Arthur
Pearson, owner of the Evening Standard. Worked with
Pearson in the formation of the Tariff Reform League
in 1903. The aims of the Commission were to examine
and report on Chamberlains's fiscal proposals and
their probable effects on British trade and
industries. Director of numerous daily and weekly
newspapers and other business concerns. Founded the
Empire Press Union in 1909, which became the
Commonwealth Press Union in 1950. Members of the CPU
are newspapers of which there are currently over 700
from 50 Commonwealth countries in membership. These
are represented by their proprietors, senior
executives and editors. The Union's aim is to uphold
the ideas and values of the Commonwealth and to
promote, through the Press, understanding and
goodwill among its members. British representative
on the American Citizens Emergency Committee in
1914, serving on a special mission throughout the
USA in 1915. Staff member of General Lloyd as
captain of the London Volunteer Regiment, 1916, as
Director of Intelligence National Service
Department, and as the founder and chairman of the
American officers club in London, 1917-1919. Member
of the Executive Committee of the Economic League, a
very secretive organization which was was set up in
1919 to fight Bolshevism and kept files on thousands
of 'subversives' until it was wound up in 1994. In
today's money, they millions of pounds every year
working against the British left. After the war he
was the originator and honourary life member of the
Association of American Correspondents in London,
1919 and the president of the Anglo-American
delegation to Holland for the celebration of the
Pilgrim Fathers tercentenary, 1920. President of the
British International Association of Journalists
1920-1922. Patron of the Society of Women Writers
and Journalists from 1925, and was the originator
and organiser of the first Imperial Press
Conference, 1932. He was a member of the
Anglo-American Brains Trust, 1942-1944 and was
awarded the Silver Medal of Merit and Diploma by the
Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia for his lifelong
services to Anglo-American fellowship and
understanding in 1958. Conservative MP for Acton
1918-1929. Member of the executive of the Empire
Parliamentary Association from 1919 to 1929. Steered
the Brittain Act for the protection of British birds
through Parliament in 1925. Member of the
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association from 1929.
Honorary president of Friends of Italy 1936-1939.
Member of the central council of the Anglo-German
Friendship Society (mirrored by the
Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft), together with Lord
Walter Runciman and Lord McGowan. The driving force
behind this foundation, founded in 1935, was Ernest
Tennant, a merchant banker and friend of the Nazis
international PR man von Ribbentrop since 1932. The
group soon gathered 50 members of the House of
Commons and House of Lords, 3 Directors of the Bank
of England and "many generals, admirals, bishops and
bankers". Pilgrims Lord Lothian and Lord Londonderry
were among its council member. After the 1938
'Kristallnacht' 19 member resigned, including its
president, Lord Mount Temple (Louis Mountbatten's
father-in-law). On the other hand, 888 members did
not withdraw. In 1939 a book called 'Tory MP': "At
meetings of the Anglo German Fellowship leading
Nazis advertise the merits of Germany's internal and
foreign policy; the society recommends and
advertises the writings of Nazi politicians; it
shows Fascist films; it arranges a "German
educationalist" to address teachers in this country;
it arranges invitations for its members to attend
the Nazi congress at Nuremberg." In 1936 Harry
Brittain, Admiral Domville, Mount Temple and Sir
Frank and Lady Newnes were "Ehrengaste" (guests of
honour) at the Nuremberg Rally. The day before the
official opening a reception was held to enable them
to meet Hitler and his chief officials. Brittain was
an executive member of the Anti-Socialist Union.
Amongst his other honours, he was created KBE for
public services in 1918, and CMG in 1924. He was a
founder of the Commonwealth Press Union, organized
the first Imperial Press Conferences, a Knight of
the British Empire, and had a journalistic
scholarship named after him in 1960. Carlton Club.
Executive of the Anti-Socialist Union; Executive
Committee, Economic League; Honorary President of
the Friends of Italy; member, Anglo-German
Friendship Society; Tory MP. |
Brown, Franklin Q. |
exec. committee |
unknown |
Listed in Who’s Who as
a mystery individual listing no date or place of
birth, no marriage, and no educational background.
Involved with Redmond & Corporation, director of
American Beet Sugar Company, American Light &
Traction Company, S.A.L. Railway Company, J.G. White
Engineering Corporation, Lima Locomotive Works, M. &
Salt Lake Railroad, Cuba Grapefruit Company, Central
Westchester & Fairfield Realty Company, Excess
Insurance Company, and Insurance Securities Company,
National Surety Company, president of Dobbs Ferry
Bank, president of Independent Chemical Company,
United States Railroad Administration. |
Bruce, David Kirpatrick
Este |
|
1898-1977 |
Anglican/Episcopalian.
State House of Representatives Maryland 1924-1926.
State House of Representatives Virginia 1939-1942.
American Red Cross Chief Representative in Great
Britain 1940. OSS Agent stationed in London where he
worked with the Vatican 1941-1945. U.S. Ambassador
France 1949-1952, Germany 1957-59, Great Britain
1961-69 and China 1973-1974. Presidential Medal of
Freedom 1976. Husband of Paul Mellon’s sister
(richest woman in America at the time). Their
daughter disappeared in 1967. |
Bruce, James |
|
unknown |
In law of Paul Mellon
and seems to be the brother of David K.E. Bruce,
director National Dairy Products Corporation,
director Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. |
Bullock, Hugh
|
president |
unknown |
Son of Calvin Bullock
who set up the very powerful Bullock banking trust
(unique among large banking houses in that it was a
proprietary business), which included the Canadian
Investment Fund (one of the most powerful Canadian
investment trusts in the thirties. People were
joking why king George V hadn't joined), Nation-Wide
Securities, Carriers & General Corp. and Dividend
Shares. Calvin Bullock advertisements (father) never
carry the firm's address and Calvin himself was
quite reclusive. Calvin also had a lot of personal
interest in Napoleon, Lord Nelson and their battles. |
Burden, William A.
Moale |
vice-president |
1906-1984 |
Vice president of The
Pilgrims at least in 1973, great great grandson of
Commodore Vanderbilt, interests in National Aviation
Corporation, Brown Brothers, Harriman & Company,
William A.M. Burden & Company, investments; and was
a director of Aerospace Corporation; Allied Chemical
Corporation; American Metal Climax (AMAX); Columbia
Broadcasting System; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation;
Union Oil & Gas Corporation; Cerro de Pasco
Corporation (mining interests) and Manufacturers
Hanover Trust. Burden was a member of National
Aeronautics & Space Council, 1958-1959; Ambassador
to Belgium, 1959-1961; member U.S. Citizens
Commission for NATO, 1961-1962; trustee Columbia
University; Foreign Service Educational Foundation;
French Institute in the U.S.; regent, Smithsonian
Institution and director of the Council on Foreign
Relations 1945-1974. Member of the Atlantic Council
of the United States. Burden was decorated by
Brazil; Germany; Peru; France; Italy and Belgium, in
which countries, we may reasonably assume, the
Vanderbilts have holdings. Reflecting his
partnership with the British Crown in reuniting
America and Britain, he was also a director of the
Atlantic Council, which goal it seeks! The
Vanderbilts intermarried with the Whitneys, partners
in Standard Oil with the Rockefellers, and we note
as of late 1973 John Hay Whitney was a vice
president of The Pilgrims. Virginia Fair, daughter
of Senator James Fair of California, a principal
beneficiary of the Ophir Silver Mine, part of the
Comstock Lode, married into the Vanderbilts. |
Burger, Warren Earl |
|
1907-1995 |
Floor manager at the
1948 and 1952 Republican conventions, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1955,
Supreme Court Chief Justice in 1969, former
Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution's Board of
Regents, More than 800 dignitaties, including
President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno and
13 sitting and retired Supreme Court justices
attended the funeral services at Washington's
National Presbyterian. |
Burleigh, George W.
|
|
unknown |
Lived from the second
half of the 19th century until the first half of the
20th century in the New York area. |
Burnham, Lord Edward
Levy-Lawson |
|
1833-1916 |
Jewish and a member of
the B'naï B'rith. His father acquired the Daily
Telegraph and Courier in 1855, a few months after it
was founded by Colonel Sleigh. Edward Burnham became
the co-editor of the newspaper from 1855 to 1873 and
later took the paper itself. The Daily Telegraph is
now owned by Conrad Black's Hollinger Group. |
Burns, Arthur Frank |
|
1904-1987 |
Born in Stanislau,
Austria, earned all his degrees at Columbia
University and did all his teaching there, economic
adviser to president Dwight Eisenhower, Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, chairman of the
Federal Reserve System 1970-1978, member Council on
Foreign Relations. |
Bush, Irving T.
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1869-1948 |
Started to construct a
200 acre industrial park on the waterfront in
Brooklyn in 1900, founder of the Bush Terminal
Railroad, president of Bush Terminal Co., attended a
1908 Pilgrim meeting. He ordered the building of the
London Bush House in 1919, which became the most
expensive building at that time. It was meant to be
an Anglo-American trade centre where buyers could
purchase goods in one place. It lost it's original
function after a few decades, but still exists today
as an office to the BBC World Service. The main
entrance is very grand, with two statues and four
big columns reaching half the height of the
nine-story building. Inscribed above the doors is
the legend "To the friendship of English Speaking
Peoples". Two statues symbolise Great Britain and
America, they each hold a flaming torch and a shield
which have the British lion and the American eagle
on them. In between the statues is an altar embossed
with a Celtic cross. Irving T. Bush has no known
relation to the Presidential Bushes. |
Butler, Nicholas Murray |
president |
1862-1947 |
Butler earned an A.B
(1882), M.A. (1883) and Ph.D. (1884), all in
philosophy, at Columbia, specializing in the
writings of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He
studied for a year at the universities of Berlin and
Paris. Became a staff member of the Department of
Philosophy at Columbia College, later known as
Columbia University. In 1882, Nicholas Murray Butler
was appointed by Columbia president Henry Barnard to
offer Saturday lectures for teachers. The turnout
was enormous. Member New Jersey Board of Education
from 1887 to 1895. Delegate to the Republican
Convention 1888-1936. In 1891 Butler founded the
Educational Review, a journal of educational
philosophies and developments. He served as its
editor until 1921. Organized the New York College
for the Training of Teachers in 1892, affiliated
with Columbia. Chairman the Paterson school
1892-1893. In these roles he led efforts to remove
state political interference from local New Jersey
school systems. In New York City, he did the same,
spurring the creation of a citywide school board
that emphasized professionalism and policy over
political spoils (1895–1897). When New York City's
consolidation was complete, New York State sought a
similar reform with Butler's advice, completed in
1904. Participated in the formation of the College
Entrance Examination Board in 1900. Had become a
close friend of Pilgrims Society member Elihu Root
by this time. President of Columbia University
1901-1945. Professor Carroll Quigley wrote in
'Tragedy and Hope': "J.P. Morgan and his associates
were the most significant figures in policy making
at Harvard, Columbia and Yale while the Whitneys and
Prudential Insurance Company dominated Princeton.
The chief officials of these universities were
beholden to these financial powers and usually owed
their jobs to them... Morgan himself helped make
Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia."
Robert A. McCaughey wrote in 'Stand Columbia: A
History of Columbia University in the City of New
York, 1754–2004': "A compulsive name-dropper given
to self-puffery, Butler was nevertheless an
effective administrator [of Columbia], and J.P.
Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and E. H. Harriman sought
to hire him to run their enterprises." Butler held
the presidency in some of their railroad companies.
President of the Germanistic Society of Columbia
University in 1905-1906 and a director from
1908-1917. It organized and sponsored lecture series
for German scholars in the United States. Travelled
to Europe on occasion where he met with Kaiser
Wilhelm and Mussolini in his early fascist days.
Quote from the 1973 book 'The Glory and the Dream, a
Narrative History of America, 1932-1972', by William
Manchester, pages 67-68: "Nicholas Murray Butler
told his students that totalitarian regimes brought
forth "men of far greater intelligence, far stronger
character, and far more courage than the system of
elections," and if anyone represented the American
establishment then it was Dr. Butler, with his 34
honorary degrees, and his thirty year tenure as
president of Columbia University." (quoted by
Charles Savoie) Supposedly Butler agreed with some
of the Nazi racial theories about the superiority of
the Teuton race. Another quote attributed to him is:
"The history of American education and of our
American contributions to philosophical thought
cannot be understood or estimated with[out] knowing
of the life work of Dr. William Torrey Harris."
Harris, a supporter of Emmanuel Kant and Georg
Hegel, shaped modern American education to a large
degree. He also was highly influential in
popularizing Hegel's philosophies in the second half
of the 19th century. Established a friendship with
Governor Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th
century. President University Settlement Society
1905-1914. Became a trustee of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1905.
President American Academy in Rome 1905-1940s.
President of the American branch of International
Conciliation, an organization founded in 1905 by a
Nobel peace laureate, Baron d'Estournelles de
Constant (from an "old aristocratic family which
traced its genealogy back to the Crusades", whatever
that means). Chairman of the Lake Mohonk Conferences
on International Arbitration, which met periodically
from 1907 to 1912. President American Scandinavian
Society 1908-1911. Influential in persuading Andrew
Carnegie (a Pilgrims member, Hegelian, and Social
Darwinist) to establish the Endowment in 1910 with a
gift of $10,000,000 he served as head of the
Endowment's section on international education and
communication, founded the European branch of the
Endowment, with headquarters in Paris, and held the
presidency of the parent Endowment from 1925 to
1945. In 1912, Roosevelt ran for the presidency as
the candidate of the Progressive Party, which drew
most of its strength from Republicans, against the
nominees of the constituted party: Taft for the
presidency and Butler for the vice-presidency. By
splitting the national vote, they permitted the
Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, to win the election.
President France-America Society 1914-1924. Nicholas
Murray Butler, in an address delivered before the
Union League of Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1915: "The
peace conference has assembled. It will make the
most momentous decisions in history, and upon these
decisions will rest the stability of the new world
order and the future peace of the world." Both
Nicholas Murray Butler and Elihu Root were staunch
supporters of the League of Nations that would
emerge after WWI. In 1916 Butler failed in his
attempt to secure the Republican presidential
nomination for Root. President American Hellenic
Society 1917-1940s. William Bostock paper
(University of Tasmania), 'To the limits of
acceptability: political control of higher
education' (2002): "On October 8, 1917, the famous
historian Charles A. Beard resigned from Columbia
University in protest over the dismissal of two
colleagues, Professors Cattell and Dana, for having
publicly opposed the entry of the United States into
World War I. Cattell and Dana urged opposition to
the draft, incurring the censure of Columbia
President Nicholas Murray Butler and the Columbia
Board of Trustees. There had also been a history of
conflict over academic leadership and governance
between Butler and Cattell, a distinguished
psychologist." Michael Parenti, 'Against Empire'
(1995), chapter 10: "A leading historian, Charles
Beard, was grilled by the Columbia University
trustees, who were concerned that his views might
"inculcate disrespect for American institutions." In
disgust Beard resigned from Columbia, declaring that
the trustees and Nicholas Murray Butler sought "to
drive out or humiliate or terrorize every man who
held progressive, liberal, or unconventional views
on political matters." Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray
Butler, and Stephen P. Duggan Sr. (CFR director)
founded the Institute for International Education in
1919. Failed to secure the Republican presidential
nomination in 1920. During the 1920s Butler was a
member of the General Committee of the American
Society for the Control of Cancer, chaired by Thomas
W. Lamont, a Rockefeller banker and Pilgrims Society
member. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. once wrote a public
letter to Butler explaining why he supported the
prohibition movement. According to Richard
Koudenhove-Kalergi in his 1958 book 'Eine Idee
erobert Europa. Meine Lebenserinnerungen'
(translated): "One of my most energetic American
friends and patrons was the president of the
Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler, the
president of the Carnegie Endowment at the same
time. He wrote the foreword to the American edition
of Paneuropa." Kalergi's Paneuropa movement was set
up and funded by Max Warburg and Louis Rothschild in
1923. Paul and Felix Warburg were promoting the
movement in the United States and Rothschild-ally
Leopold S. Amery was a major supporter from the
United Kingdom. Stephen P. Duggan, the CFR director
and co-founder of the Institute for International
Education, became the president of the American
Cooperative Committee of the Pan-European Union (he
held this position from 1925 to 1940). In 1927
Butler assisted the U.S. State Department in
developing the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Failed to secure
the Republican presidential nomination in 1928.
President of the Pilgrims Society 1928-1946. Visitor
of the Bohemian Grove and an honorary member by
1929. Butler gave the core members of the Frankfurt
School’s Institute for Social Research a home in
exile at Columbia University in 1934. These people
were supporters of Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Max Weber. Among these
people was Herbert Marcuse, a Jewish Marxist
Hegelian, who became the 'father of the New Left' in
the 1960s. President Italy-America Society
1929-1935. Director of the New York Life Insurance
Corporation 1929-1939. Nobel Peace Prize 1931.
Received a gold medal from the National Institute of
Social Sciences at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria in
1932, together with J.P. Morgan. On November 19,
1937, Butler attended a meeting where Pilgrims
Society member Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of
Chelwood, received a Nobel Prize for his work in
establishing the League of Nations. Both Butler and
Lord Cecil held speeches about the role the League
of Nations should have. Although it is only a rumor,
Butler is supposed to have said at this meeting (in
private) that communism was a tool of the British
financial powers to knock down national governments
and to bring about a world government in the future.
Chairman Carnegie Corporation of New York 1937-1945.
Vice-president International Benjamin Franklin
Society in 1939. Governor Pan American Trade
Committee in 1939. Governor of the Metropolitan
Club, founded by J.P. Morgan in 1891, and which
counted among its members two Vanderbilts, three
Mellons, five Du Ponts, and six Roosevelts. He was a
governor Honorary president American Society of
French Legion of Honor from 1944 on. Decorated by
China, France, Dominican, Republic, Cuba, Germany,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Romania,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Chile and
other countries. Quigley has quoted Butler as saying
"The world is divided in to three classes of people:
a very small group that makes things happen, a
somewhat larger group that watches things happen,
and the great multitude which never knows what
happened." |
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