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Life |
Biography |
Cadbury, Laurence John |
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1889-1982 |
Order of the British
Empire, treasurer of the Population Investigation
Committee in 1936, governor of the Bank of England
1936-1961, vice president of the Eugenics Society
1951-1952 and a long time fellow, managing director
of Cadbury Bros. Ltd., including what is now Cadbury
Schweppes, a $6 billion business in beverages,
confections and other items. His two sons have taken
over the business empire and one of them has also
been governor of the Bank of England. His nephew,
George Woodall Cadbury, wrote "Population changes
and economics" (1941) and "The Case for Voluntary
Euthanasia" (1971). There have been more Cadbury's
busy in the eugenics/population control movement. |
Carlton, Newcomb
|
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1869-1953 |
President and chairman
Western Union (During the 20s and 30s he was
involved with laying the first transnational phone
lines). In a Senate subcommittee hearing Carlton and
others admitted that British (Naval) Intelligence
was spying on the company and that this was the most
common thing in the world. This practice went back
to at least the first half of the 19th century.
Carlton also was director International Acceptance
Bank, Chase National Bank, Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co., American Express Co., the American
Sugar Refining Co., American Telegraph and Cable
Co., American International Corporation (very
involved with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917),
World Cable Systems, member Newcomen Society. |
Carnegie, Andrew |
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1835-1919 |
Born in Dunfermline,
Scotland, in 1835. His father, William Carnegie was
a master handloom weaver like his father and
grandfather before him. Went to school at the age of
8. His family moved to America in 1848 to seek a
better life and ended up just north of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie went to work as a bobbin boy in a local
textile mill owned by a fellow Scot. He made $1.20 a
week. Shortly thereafter he got a better paying job
in a bobbin factory of yet another expatriate Scot.
His job was dipping the bobbins into an oil bath and
firing the factory boiler. He also got to work in
the Company office on occasion where he decided he
needed to learn double-entry bookkeeping.
Consequently, in addition to working 12 hour days,
he went to night school across the river in
Pittsburgh. He got a job at the O'Reilly Telegraph
Company as a messenger boy. Carnegie delivered
messages to all the important businesses in the city
and soon knew a great deal about Pittsburgh's
commercial affairs. In 1851 he became a full time
telegraph operator. Became a protege for Thomas A.
Scott in 1853, who was president of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Carnegie had come to Scott's attention
because of his reputation as being the best
telegraph operator in town and Scott needed a
personal telegrapher and secretary. Scott
established the first holding company, which was
illegal at the time due to the corporate containment
laws of the revolution. Scott's influence in
politics was huge, thereby breaking another
containment law, that of corporate involvement in
politics. Scott hired members of the Ku Klux Klan as
board members to his companies. He did this in order
to stop the attacks by the Klan on the railroad work
crews of newly emancipated slaves. To avoid bad
publicity as much as possible, Scott was buying up
newspapers in the North and South forcing editors to
censor his critics. His railroads were also
important during the Civil War, turning the tides of
different battles. In 1856 Scott persuaded Carnegie
to buy some stock and even loaned him the money to
do so. Carnegie bought the stock primarily because
he admired Scott and regarded him as a father
figure. The experience of receiving dividends
changed Carnegie's attitude and he became an
enthusiastic investor. In 1859 Carnegie was
appointed Superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division,
the most important and difficult Division of the
railroad. Co-founded the successful Columbia Oil
Company in 1861, but grew tired of the messy oil
business and got out in 1865. Went into the iron
business with his partner Thomas Miller in 1861.
Carnegie, Miller, and two other partners founded the
Cyclops Iron Works in Pittsburgh in 1864. Carnegie
quit the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865 to start up
the Keystone Bridge Company, since many bridges were
destroyed during the Civil War. In 1868 Carnegie
establishes the Keystone Telegraph Company with
several associates from the railroad. The company
receives permission from the Pennsylvania Railroad
to string telegraph wire across the railroad's
poles, which stretch across the entire state. This
is such a valuable asset that Keystone is able to
merge almost immediately with the Pacific and
Atlantic Telegraph Company, allowing Keystone's
investors to triple their return. Carnegie writes
himself a letter in 1868 in which he outlines his
plans for the future. He determines to resign from
business at age 35 and live on an income of $50,000
per year, devoting the remainder of his money to
philanthropic causes, and most of his time to his
education. He will change his mind. In 1869 Carnegie
met Junius Morgan (J. P. Morgan's father and a
George Peabody business partner since 1854; Peabody
is said to have been an agent of the Rothschild
family) in London. Junius Morgan was one of the
leading investment bankers in London and his word
"was as good as gold". If Morgan endorsed a bond
issue, it would be easily placed. Carnegie made
substantial fees (typically 2.5%) selling bonds in
Europe. He placed issues for various bridge
construction projects and several railroads. In 1870
he built his own blast furnace to guarantee supplies
of pig iron that he controlled. In 1872 Carnegie
came back from a trip to England convinced that the
future was steel. While in England in 1872-1873, on
one of his frequent trips to Great Britain, he met
Henry Bessemer and saw the Bessemer process of
making steel. This convinced him that steel was the
future of the railroad industry. He then organized
Carnegie, McCandless & Company (with some new
partners as some of his earlier iron partners
weren't convinced yet) in the United States and
built a new steel plant named the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works. Unfortunately some of his partners were
unable to come up with their shares in the project
because of the financial depression of 1873. At the
same moment his mentor and friend Thomas Scott
wanted Carnegie to bail out his troubled company.
Carnegie (wisely) refused, Thomas went bankrupt, and
their friendship ended. To keep his enterprise
afloat Carnegie took his partner Holley with him to
London in the summer of 1874 and the two were, with
the aid of Junius Morgan (the Peabody banker and
father of J.P. Morgan), able to sell $400,000 worth
of bonds to London investors. The Edgar Thomson
works were completed in 1875 and the business was an
immediate success. In 1877 they already had a 13%
share in the steel rail market, which had risen to
29% by 1897. Because Carnegie always had majority
control in the partnership, he insisted upon plowing
almost all the profits back into improving the
works, always upgrading, always in search of the
littlest efficiencies. He was always concerned more
with building and improving than spending dividends.
In October 1883 Carnegie bought the Homestead Works
from a group of Pittsburgh investors. In 1886
Carnegie made Charles M. Schwab (at the age of 24;
later Pilgrims Society member and known as a "master
hustler") general superintendent of the Homestead
Works. Married Louise Whitfield of New York in 1887
and they had one child, Margaret. Came up with the
idea of Carnegie Hall in 1889 and provided the funds
to build it. It was opened in 1891, although
construction work continued until 1897. The Carnegie
family owned the music hall until 1924 and it is
still legendary for its acoustics. In 1892 Frick
persuaded Carnegie to merge Carnegie Brothers and
Carnegie, Phipps, Company into one vast company,
Carnegie Steel. It had an initial capitalization of
$25,000,000 which was far below the actual value of
the company. Carnegie owned 55%, Frick 11%, Phipps
11%, and nineteen other partners 1% each. In 1895,
Andrew Carnegie presented the people of Pittsburgh
with the Carnegie Institute. It housed a library, a
music hall, an art gallery, and a museum of natural
history. It's important to note that Carnegie always
(also in the future) funded the building of the
actual libraries, but required local governments to
legislate commitments to fund ongoing maintenance,
staff, and book purchases from public coffers.
Carnegie was a generous financial supporter and one
of the many vice presidents of the Anti-Imperialist
League, which was formed in June 1898 to fight U.S.
annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of
reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to
the racial to the moral. The league died after the
Treaty of Paris was signed in December of that same
year. Carnegie consolidated his holdings into
Carnegie Steel Co. in 1899 at which moment he
controlled 1/4 of American steel production.. In
1900 Carnegie provided $1 million to the Carnegie
Technical Schools in Pittsburgh which developed into
the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912. Sold
Carnegie Steel in 1901 to J.P. Morgan for $480
million and used the money to retire. Morgan renamed
the company to U.S. Steel. Carnegie had been a
director of American Express, Illinois Central
Railroad, United States Trust Company of New York,
Western Union Telegraph, City & Suburban Homes, and
Cuban-Dominican. Gave the New York Public Library
$5.2 million for 65 branch libraries in 2001.
Created the Trust for the Universities of Scotland
in 1901. The gift of $10 million that endowed the
trust was larger by several orders of magnitude than
the assistance provided by the government of the day
to the four ancient Scottish Universities.
Established the Carnegie Institution of Washington
in 1902, an organization for scientific discovery.
His intention was for the institution to be home to
exceptional individuals - men and women with
imagination and extraordinary dedication capable of
working at the cutting edge of their fields. The
first president of the institution was Daniel Coit
Gilman (incorporated Skull & Bones into the Russell
Trust). The Carnegie Teachers' Pension Fund was
established in 1905 and Carnegie endowed the fund
with $10 million. It was incorporated in the
following year as the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and did a lot to improve the
level of education in the US. Member of the
Philippine Independence Committee in 1904 and a vice
president of the Filipino Progress Association
1905-1907. Established the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission in the US in 1904 to help people that had
been struck by some kind of disaster. It was
established in Britain in 1908 and was soon followed
by nine Funds on the European continent: France,
Germany (doesn't exist anymore), Belgium, Denmark,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and
Switzerland. Funded the first 'Temple of Peace',
known as the Bureau of American Republics in
Nicaragua, which was ready in 1908. Funded the
second 'Temple of Peace', known as the Central
American Court of Justice, which was ready in 1910.
Contributed to the building of the 'House of the
Americas' in Washington D.C. in 1910, which became
the headquarters of the Pan American Union. The
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was set
up in 1910 at the initial direction of Pilgrims
Society member Nicholas Murray Butler (of the
Pilgrims). The first president of the Carnegie
Endowment was Elihu Root (1910-1925; Pilgrims), who
became a primary founder of the Council on Foreign
Relations in later years. The Carnegie Endowment
publishes Foreign Policy magazine since 1970, which
was established by Samuel P. Huntington (who wrote
‘The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
World'). The Endowment conducts programs of
research, discussion, publication, and education on
international affairs and US foreign policy. Today
it is funded by the Rockefeller, Luce, and Ford
Foundations, AIG, Boeing, Citigroup, and other
corporations. Andrew created the Carnegie
Corporation of New York in 1911, which is the
grant-making organization. Funded the third 'Temple
of Peace', known as the Palace of Peace at the
Hague, which was ready in 1913 and is owned by the
Carnegie Foundation. The Dutch Royals were present
at the inauguration. Created the Carnegie United
Kingdom Trust in 1913. It was involved in the
restoration of some 3,500 church organs throughout
the British Isles and the creation of the more than
2800 Carnegie libraries in the United States,
Canada, the British Isles, and many countries of the
British Commonwealth. 660 of these libraries were
located in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The
Church Peace Union (today known as the Carnegie
Council on Ethics and International Affairs) was
established at a meeting at the home of Andrew
Carnegie in 1914 with an endowment of over $2
million. When WWI broke out in 1914, Carnegie left
Scotland. The Carnegie Endowment established the
American Council of Learned Societies in 1919. Elihu
Root prepared the final will of Carnegie on March
31, 1919. When he died that same year, Carnegie had
given away over $350 million. He was known as a
Social Darwinist (supporting the work of Darwin and
Herbert Spencer) and a follower of William Torrey
Harris, the highly influential American educator who
popularized the theories of Georg Hegel and Emmanuel
Kant.
Today the Carnegie Endowment is one of the
driving forces of the globalization process and
funds numerous United Nations programs. The Carnegie
Corporation of New York sponsors the CFR on a
continuous basis with grants ranging from $25,000 to
$900,000 annually and the Atlantic Council of the
United States with $25,000 to $100,000 annually. It
donated $200,000 to the Royal Institute of
International Affairs in 2003. The American Red
Cross receives several hundred thousand dollars a
year. The Staten Island Zoological Society and the
Museum of Jewish Heritage (the ‘Living Memorial to
the Holocaust') each receive $100,000 a year. Some
other organizations that receive large amounts of
grants are the Institute of Semitic Studies, the
Center for Jewish History, the American Assembly,
the American Museum Of Natural History (Charles
Darwin), the American Foreign Policy Council, and
the Moscow School of Political Studies. The Carnegie
Corporation makes (globalist) research grants to
almost, if not all the major universities in the
United States and southern Africa. These grants add
up to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to
even several million a year to some of the larger
universities. The universities in the United States
that receive these grants are: America, Arizona,
Bradford, Boston, Brigham Young, California,
Carnegie Mellon, Catholic, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Claremont, Colorado, Columbia, Connecticut, DePau,
Dillard, Duke, Emory, Fort Hare, Georgia,
Georgetown, George Washington, Harvard, Illinois,
Indiana, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, New York, Northwestern, Notre Dame,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Queens,
Rutgers, Stanford, Syracuse, Temple, Tennessee,
Texas, Tufts, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin,
and Yale. The universities in southern Africa that
receive Carnegie grants are: Cape Town,
KwaZulu-Natal, Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Western
Cape, Makerere, Dar es Salaam, Ghana, Obafemi
Awolowo, Jos, Ahmadu Bello, Stellenbosch, Rand
Afrikaans, Rhodes, and Makerere. Many of these South
African universities receive $2 million a year.
Other universities that receive Carnegie research
grants are the University of the Pacific, the
Central European University (chaired by George
Soros), the American University of Beirut, and the
Australian National University. The Carnegie
Corporation also funds several umbrella
organizations in the international education system.
Among them are the American Association of
University Professors, the American Forum for Global
Education, the Association of American Colleges and
Universities, the Association of Governing Boards of
Universities and Colleges, and the Association of
African Universities. The Carnegie Corporation works
closely with the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others.
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Carrington, Lord Peter
Rupert |
president |
1919-alive |
Carrington was
educated at Eton and RMA Sandhurst. In 1938 he
succeeded his father as 6th Baron Carrington and
took his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st
birthday in 1940. In WWII he served as a major in
the Grenadier Guards and was awarded the Military
Cross. Went into politics and joined the
Conservatives. Parliamentary Secretary to the
Ministry for Agriculture and Food 1951-1954.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
1954-1956. High Commissioner to Australia 1956-1959.
Became a member of the Privy Council in 1959. First
Lord of the Admiralty 1959-1963. Minister without
Portfolio and Leader of the House of Lords
1963-1964. Leader of the Opposition in the House of
Lords 1964-1970. Defence Secretary 1970-1974.
Chairman of the Conservative Party 1972-1974.
Secretary of State for Energy from January to March
1974. Stepped temporarily out of politics in 1974.
Has been a director of Rio Tinto, Barclays Bank,
Cadbury Schweppes, Hollinger International,
Amalgamated Metal, British Metal, and Hambros Bank.
Attended the Trilateral Commission in the 1970s.
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Royal Institute for International Affairs. One of
the few who was in the loop of Brian Crozier's (Le
Cercle) Shield Committee that succeeded in getting
Margaret Thatcher elected in 1979. British Foreign
Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1979-1982. Resigned over the Falkland crisis
although he expressed his opinion that much of the
criticism was unjustified. President of the Pilgrims
of Great Britain since 1983. Joined Kissinger
Associates in the 1983-1984 period. Secretary
General of NATO 1984-1988. Member of the Order of
the Garter since 1985. Identified as a governor of
the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in
1987. Chairman of Bilderberg 1989-1998. Governor of
the Ditchley Foundations. |
Cates, Louis S. |
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1881-1959 |
Chairman American
Mining Congress, chairman Phelps-Dodge Corporation
(the world's number two leading producer of copper
and molybdenum and is the world's largest producer
of continuous-cast copper rod) 1930-1947. The
Phelps-Dodge company was a main financier of the
1934 fascist plot against FDR. The vice president of
Phelps-Dodge Corporation, Cleveland Dodge, was one
of the Crusaders' National Advisors, who were
working together with The American Libert League to
turn public opinion pro-fascist. They worked
together with the du Ponts, Morgans, Harrimans and
many other wealthy influential families, many of
them Pilgrims. |
Cates, John Martin, Jr. |
|
unknown |
Member of the
executive committee of the Wolf’s Head Society of
Yale, worked at the United States Mission to the
United Nations and worked close with McGeorge Bundy
and George Wildman Ball, president Center For
Inter-American Relations in New York, member Council
on Foreign Relations.
|
Catlin, George Edward
Gordon |
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1896-1979 |
Educated at St Paul's
School, New College, Oxford, and Cornell University,
where he was professor of politics 1924-1959. He was
lecturer at various universities, including Yale,
Calcutta, Columbia, Peking and Berkeley. An
Assistant Professor of Politics at Cornell by the
age of 28 and subsequently twice acting chairman. In
1925 Catlin wrote the first of many articles
advocating the closest Anglo-American cooperation on
every level, in fact organic union. In 1926 he was
appointed Director of the National Commission
(Social Research Council) to study the impact of
prohibition in the United States. Between 1928 and
1931 Catlin was attached to the personal staff of
Sir Oswald Mosley, a period before Mosley had made
his final break with the Labour Party. From 1929
onwards Catlin attempted to win a suitable Labour
Party nomination and he unsuccessfully stood for
Brentford in 1931 and for Sunderland in 1935. In
1929 he assisted H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and
other literati in establishing The Realist magazine
and between 1935 and 1937 he served on the executive
of the Fabian Society. During the 1930s Catlin
traveled abroad extensively, journeying to Germany
where he witnessed the Dimitrov trial, with its
sinister foreshadowing of what Nazism was to become,
to Russia for a prolonged examination of the newly
established Communist regime and to Spain during the
depths of the Civil War. Throughout this period
Catlin wrote a large number of journalistic pieces,
principally for the Yorkshire Post. He served on the
campaign team of Presidential candidate Wendell
Wilkie during 1940 and his book, One Anglo-American
Nation appeared in 1941. In 1931 Catlin met Gandhi
for the first time in London and he became an early
advocate of Indian independence, visiting the
sub-continent in 1946 and again in 1947 and
publishing his tribute to the assassinated leader,
In the Path of Mahatma Gandhi, during 1948. He
lectured in Peking in 1947, served as Provost of Mar
Ivanios College in Indiana in 1953-54 and a Chairman
and Bronfman Professor in the Department of
Economics and Political Science at McGill University
between 1956 and 1960. His autobiography, on which
he had worked sporadically since the end of the
First World War, was finally published in 1972 as
For God's Sake, Go. |
Catto, Henry Edward,
Jr. |
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1930-alive |
Graduate of Williams
College, deputy representative to the Organization
of American States 1969-1971, U.S. ambassador to El
Salvador 1971-1973, chief of protocol of the White
House and Department of State 1974-1976, U.S.
representative to the United Nations Offices in
Geneva 1976-1977, assistant secretary of Defense for
Public Affairs and Pentagon spokesman 1981-1983,
vice chairman and president of Broadcast Group at H
& C Communications 1983-1989 (operator of network
television stations Houston, Orlando-Daytona Beach,
San Antonio), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain
1989-1991, director of the United States Information
Agency 1991-1993, partner in the insurance firm
Catto & Catto, diplomat-in-residence at the
University of Texas at San Antonio, member of the
Smithsonian National Board, vice-chairman of the
Aspen Institute, member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, chairman of the Atlantic Council of the
United States since 1999. |
Calhoun, John Calwell |
|
1843-1918 |
Was with the
Confederate Army at the Battle of Fort Sumter. His
wife, Linnie Adams, was grandniece of Richard M.
Johnson, vice president of the U.S., 1837-1941.
After the war he had agricultural interests in
Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas and was part of
the management of the Cotton Exposition in 1884 at
New Orleans. He was special ambassador to France in
1897, sent by the S.A.R.---Sons of the American
Revolution (France assisted the Colonies in becoming
free from the British). Calling himself a
"financier" (perhaps the Erlangers put him in
business) in the 1897-1942 volume, he was president
of the Baltimore Coal Mining & Railroad Company and
“Albertite Oilite & Cannel Coal Co. Ltd." |
Caulcutt, Sir John |
|
born 1876 |
Director of large
companies. No other info. |
Cave, Viscount George |
President |
1856-1928 |
Having served as
standing Counsel to Oxford University for two years
as well as Attorney General to the Prince of Wales,
in 1915 Cave was appointed Solicitor General and
knighted. The following year, he was made Home
Secretary in Lloyd George's coalition government, a
post he held for three years. In 1918, Sir George
Cave was ennobled as Viscount Cave, of Richmond in
the County of Surrey. The following year, he became
a Lord of Appeal, and chaired a number of
commissions, including the Southern Rhodesian
commission and the Munitions Enquiry Tribunal. In
1922, he became Lord Chancellor in Bonar Law's
government, and again served in this capacity in
Baldwin's first administration. Having been made
GCMG in 1921, he was also elected Chancellor of
Oxford University in 1925. |
Cecil, Lord Robert
Gascoyne |
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1864-1958 |
Member of the very
powerful Cecil family that has produced numerous
members of the Order of Garter and the Privy
Council, starting with Sir William Cecil in the
1500s. They intermarried with elite blue blood
families as de Vere, Arundel, Plantagenet, and
Cavendish. William Cecil and his protégé Sir Francis
Walsingham devised an intricate spy network during
the latter years of Elizabeth I's reign that
succeeded in uncovering numerous Catholic plots
against the monarch. Sir William Cecil's daughter,
Anne, married Edward de Vere, the 17 th Earl of
Oxford and a member of what was quite possibly the
bluest of blue blood families in existence. De Vere
had worked for William Cecil and the throne since a
young age and was later rumored to have written the
works of Shakespeare. Lady Diana Cecil married the
18th Earl of Oxford.
Third son of Robert
Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who was a
member of the Order of the Garter and the Privy
Council. The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury was the
Chancellor of Oxford University from 1869 to 1903, a
fellow of All Souls, and a British prime minister
for 14 years. Carrol Quigley described the Rhodes
secret society and the Round Table Group (All Souls,
Oxford) as the 'Cecil Bloc'. The 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury and his family were really the prime
movers behind this network. Robert grew to like
Benjamin Disraeli, who he had previously distrusted
as a Jew. Disraeli eventually became a housefriend
to the family and was invested into the Order of the
Garter. Baron Lionel de Rothschild was another close
friend of Disraeli. One of Cecil's sisters was the
mother of Arthur J. Balfour (An occultist who wrote
a letter to Lionel de Rothschild in November 1917
declaring that the British government stood behind
zionist plans to build a Jewish national home in
Palestine) and Gerald W. Balfour. Even today, the
Hatfield House is the Hertfordshire home of the
family, built between 1609 and 1611 by the1st Earl
of Salisbury; a Privy Councillor and Knight of the
Garter who was the Chief Minister to James I.
Robert Cecil, the third son of 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, was educated at home until 1877, which he
considered superior to his later college education.
Went to Eton College and Oxford where he studied law
and turned out to excel at debate. Admitted to the
Bar in 1887. Married Lady Eleanor Lambton in 1889.
Law career from 1887 to 1906. Member of the
Coefficients diner-debate Club which organized
monthly meetings between 1902 and 1908. Other
members were H.G. Wells, Arthur Balfour (a cousin of
Cecil), Alfred Milner, Halford Mackinder, Earl
Bertrand Russell (often with a different, but not
more humane opinion than the others), Viscount
Edward Grey, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Leopold
Amery (Rothschild associate). Member of the
Conservative Party to the House of Commons
1906-1910. Set up the RT Group in 1910 with Lionel
Curtis and others. Independent Conservative member
House of Commons 1911-1923. Worked for the Red Cross
1914-1915. Became a member of the Privy Council in
1915. Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs 1915-1916. Minister of Blockade from 1916 to
1918, being responsible for devising procedures to
bring economic and commercial pressure against the
enemy. Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs 1918-1919. Chancellor of Birmingham
University 1918-1944. Chairman of the Supreme
Economic Council of the Versailles Peace Treaty in
1919 and one of the principal draftsmen of the
League of Nations Covenant. Co-founder and first
chairman of the Royal Institute of International
Affairs in 1920. Became the first 1th Viscount of
Chelwood in 1923. Lord Privy Seal 1923-1924.
President of the British League of Nations Union
1923-1945. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1924-1927. In 1985 John Coleman named Robert Cecil
as the brainchild behind the Unity of Science
Conferences that ran from 1929 to 1941. Received the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1937 for his work in
establishing the League of Nations. During this
meeting he and co-Pilgrims Society member Nicholas
Murray Butler spoke in favor of expanding the role
of the League of Nations. Present at the final
meeting of the League of Nations in 1946 and ended
his speech with the words: "The League is dead, long
live the United Nations." Cecil's autobiography,
'All the Way', was published in 1949. Member
Pilgrims Society. Today, his great great nephew, 7th
Marquess of Salisbury, is a member of Le Cercle and
the Privy Council. |
Chadbourne, William
Merriam |
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born 1879 |
New York lawyer, vice
president of the China Society of America. |
Chaffee, Adna Romanza |
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1842-1914 |
A General in the
United States Army. Chaffee took part in the Indian
Wars, played a key role in the Spanish-American War,
and was instrumental at crushing the Boxer Rebellion
in China. He also fought in the Philippine-American
War in 1901 and 1902. Chaffee was the Chief of Staff
of the United States Army from 1904 to 1906,
overseeing far-reaching transformation of
organization and doctrine in the Army. |
Chamberlain, Arthur
Neville |
|
1869-1940 |
he first half of his
career was spent in business and, after 1911, in the
city government of Birmingham, of which he became
lord mayor in 1915. In 1917 he was director of
national service, supervising conscription, and the
following year, at the age of 50, he was elected to
Parliament as a Conservative. During the 1920s he
served both as chancellor of the exchequer (1923–24)
and minister of health (1923, 1924–29). In the
latter position, he enacted a series of important
reforms that simplified the administration of
Britain's social services and systematized local
government. In 1931 he again became chancellor of
the exchequer and held that office until he
succeeded Stanley Baldwin as prime minister in 1937.
During the 1930s, Chamberlain's professed commitment
to avoiding war with Hitler resulted in his
controversial policy of “appeasement,” which
culminated in the Munich Pact (1938). Although
contemporaries and scholars during and after the war
criticized Chamberlain for believing that Hitler
could be appeased, recent research argues that
Chamberlain was not so naive and that appeasement
was a shrewd policy developed to buy time for an
ill-prepared Britain to rearm. After Germany's
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he pledged
military support to Poland and led Britain to war in
September. After the British debacle in Norway, he
was forced to resign in May, 1940. He was lord
president of the council under Winston Churchill
until Oct., 1940, and died a few weeks later. |
Charles, Michael
Harrison |
|
|
He was educated at
Jacksonville Episcopal High School, the University
of Florida, Florida State University and New York
University. Mr. Charles is a well-known interior
designer having worked for several major
architectural firms before founding Michael H.
Charles Associates in 1985. Member of the Advisory
Council of the Hereditary Society Community of the
United States of America (researches history and
genealogy). His designs have been published in
numerous magazines and books over the years and he
was the recipient of the prestigious Wool Bureau
Award for fabric design. Michael H.Charles
Associates maintains offices in New York City and
St. Augustine, Florida. Mr. Charles is a member of
the Pilgrims of the United States, New York, as well
as The Honourable Company of Freemen of London.. He
is also a member of St. Thomas Church of Fifth
Avenue wherehe serves as Head Usher, and on the
Choir School Benefit Committee, as Acquisitions
Chairman, and on the Stewardship Committee. He is a
life member of the Society of Mary; Confraternity of
the Blessed Sacrament; Guild of All Souls; Society
of St. King Charles the Martyr; and the Church Club
of New York where he also serves as a member of
Events Committee. Mr. Charles is Worshipful Master
of the Masonic Independent Royal Arch Lodge #2 F&AM,
of New York City. He has served as Junior Warden and
Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Charles is also a member
of Long I Grotto; Scottish Rite, Valley of New York,
32 degree; Ancient Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, New
York City; Columbian Council, Cryptic Masons, New
York City; Morton Commandery, Knights Templar, New
York City; Paumonock Council, Knight Masons, New
York City; Quartro Coranotti Lodge, London, England.
He is a member of the Ponte Vedra Club of
Jacksonville, FL; the Royal Scottish Automobile Club
of Glasgow, Scotland; and the Lansdowne Club of
London of London, England. Society of the Cincinnati
in the State of Virginia (life member); General
Society of Colonial Wars (Secretary and life member
of the New York Society; regular member of the
Florida Society Society; Gentleman of the Council in
New York and Florida Societies); Saint Nicholas
Society of the City of New York (life member; Member
of the Council); Colonial Order of the Acorn (life
member); Order of the Indian Wars of the United
States (life member); General Society Sons of the
Revolution (member in the States of New York and
Pennsylvania; life member of NY Society; Fraunces
Tavern Museum Board Member); Saint Andrews Society
of New York (life member) Saint David Society of New
York (life member); Saint George's Society of New
York (life member; Board member; Chairman
Activities; Chairman - Queen's Jubilee 2002; Ball
Committee); Society of the Sons of Saint George of
Philadelphia (life member); Military Society of the
War of 1812 (life member); Veteran Corps of
Artillery State of New York (life member); The
Huguenot Society of America (life member; Registrar
General; Member of the Membership Committee);
Colonial Society of Pennsylvania Military Order of
the Stars and Bars (life member; Commander of the
New York Society); Order of the Southern Cross (life
member); Dutch Settlers Society of Albany (life
member); Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania (life
member); National Society Sons of the American
Colonists (life member; former Vice President
General); Society of the Descendants of the
ColonialClergy (life member); Hereditary Order of
the Descendants of Colonial Governors (life member;
Third Vice President General); Order of Americans of
Armorial Ancestry (life member); Flagon and Trencher
(life member); Descendants of the Founders of New
Jersey (life member); National Society Descendants
of Early Quakers (life member); Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick of Philadelphia (life member); Order of
Descendants of Colonial Physicians & Chirurgiens
(life member); Sons and Daughters of the Colonial &
Antebellum Bench and Bar 1585-1861 (life member);
National Society Sons of the American Revolution
(Florida State, Past Regional Vice President;
Organizing President, St. Augustine Chapter; First
Continental Chapter, New York City, Member of the
Council); General Society of the War of 1812 (former
Florida State President); National Society Sons and
Daughters of the Pilgrims (Florida and New York;
Councilor - New York Branch); Most Venerable Order
of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Officer);
Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem
(Prior of St. Michael & St. George New York City
Priory; Silver Pilgrim Shell); Order of Saints
Maurice and Lazarus (Cavalieri) |
Choate, Joseph H.
|
|
unknown |
A Rockefeller
attorney, present as a chairman at an 1882 meeting
where they unanimously denounced the Jewish
persecution in Russia (an Anson Phelps-Stokes was
also a chairman. His son was a S&B member in 1896,
just as many other Phelps), president of the 1892
Constitutional Convention working close with later
Pilgrim Elihu Root, successfully challenged the
Income Tax Act of 1894 (saw it was Communist),
ambassador to Britain 1899-1905, U.S. delegate to
the International Peace Conference at The Hague in
1907, attended a 1908 Pilgrim meeting. |
Christopher, Warren M. |
|
1925-alive |
Studied law at
Stanford, deputy attorney general under President
Lyndon Johnson, deputy secretary of state under
President Jimmy Carter (he was the chief American
negotiator in the 1981 talks that ended the Iranian
hostage crisis), director Council on Foreign
Relations 1982-1987, vice-chairman Council on
Foreign Relations 1987-1991, Stanford University
trustee, Secretary of State 1993-1997 (particularly
involved in seeking Arab-Israeli peace agreements
and in negotiating a peace in Bosnia), chairman of
the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police
Department, director of Chevron-Texaco, Lockheed,
Southern California Edison and First Interstate
Bancorporation. Anno 2005, Chairman of the Carnegie
Corporation in New York. |
Chrysler, Walter Percy
|
|
1875-1940 |
Founder of the
Chrysler Corporation (now part of DaimlerChrysler
A.G.). He began as a machinist’s apprentice and rose
within the industry to become vice president in
charge of operations at General Motors in 1919. In
1920 he undertook the reorganization of the Willys
Overland and Maxwell companies. In 1924 he brought
out the first Chrysler car and within a short time
he made the company one of the largest automobile
manufacturers. |
Church, Elihu |
hon. secretary |
unknown |
Multimillionaire, rose
to a major during WWI, engineer of Transportation of
the Port Authority of New York. |
Churchill, Sir Winston |
|
1874-1965 |
The son of Lord
Randolph Churchill, who was (very) close to
Nathaniel de Rothschild, and an American mother. He
was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a brief
but eventful career in the army, he became a
Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held
many high posts in Liberal and Conservative
governments during the first three decades of the
century. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he
was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty - a post
which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. In May,
1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of
Defence and remained in office until 1945. He took
over the premiership again in the Conservative
victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955. However, he
remained a Member of Parliament until the general
election of 1964, when he did not seek re-election.
Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the
dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the
insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953. Among
the other countless honours and decorations he
received, special mention should be made of the
honorary citizenship of the United States which
President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963.
Chancellor of the University of Bristol 1929-1965.
Churchill was an ordained Druid and very interested
in spiritualism. |
Clarke, Sir Caspar
Purdon |
|
1846-1911 |
Architect,
archaeologist and museum director, had been on
purchasing expeditions on behalf of the Victoria and
Albert Museum to Turkey, Syria, Greece, Spain, Italy
and Germany. He spent two years as a special
commissioner in India, which is when he acquired the
Hamzanama (painting of an uncle of the prophet
Muhammed). |
Clarkson, Robert
|
|
unknown |
Royal Globe Insurance
Group in the first part of the 20th century. All the
information available. |
Clews, James B.
|
|
unknown |
Stayed at the
Waldorf-Astoria. All the information available. |
Clover, Richardson |
|
1846-1919 |
In 1897-1898 he was
chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence; member of
the Board on Construction of Vessels, 1897-1899;
member War and Strategy board, 1898; commanded
U.S.S. Bancroft, May 1, 1898, until end of
Spanish-American War; served as Naval Attaché in
London, 1900-1903; commanded as Rear Admiral, the
U.S.S. Wisconsin, Asiatic region, 1904-1905; and
served as president of the Board of Inspection,
1906-1908. |
Coleman, Charles P.
|
|
born 1865 |
Lehigh Valley Railroad
(Vanderbilt and Rockefeller ownership), director
American-Russian Chamber of Commerce from its
founding in 1922. Father of Leighton H. Coleman. |
Coleman, Leighton
Hammond |
|
unknown |
Emeritus director of
RJ. Reynolds Industries. Son of Charles P. Coleman. |
Coleshill, Lord Vincent
of |
|
1931-alive |
Richard (Dick) Vincent
was born in London in 1931 and educated at Aldenham
and The Royal Military College of Science,
Shrivenham. His command appointments have included a
battery in the Commonwealth Brigade in Malaysia,
Regimental Command in Germany and the United Kingdom
(with an operational tour in Northern Ireland),
Command of an Infantry Brigade and, as a Major
General, Commandant of the Royal Military College of
Science. Starting in 1983, Lord Vincent served for
four years on the Army Board as the member
responsible for the acquisition of new land weapon
systems and equipment and he took up his first Chief
of Staff appointment as Vice Chief of the Defence
Staff in 1987. In this latter appointment he was
directly involved in initiating high level military
contacts with the former Soviet Union, where he
travelled widely in response to the Gorbachev
reforms. Lord Vincent was promoted Field Marshal and
appointed Chief of Defence Staff in April 1991. He
was then elected to the NATO appointment of Chairman
of the Military Committee from 1993 to 1996 at a
time when The Alliance forged closer relationships
with the nations of central and eastern Europe and
became increasingly involved with operations in
former Yugoslavia, ultimately launching the NATO led
IFOR operation in 1995. In addition to his military
qualifications, he holds a DSc (Hons) from Cranfield
University, is a Fellow of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Aeronautical
Society, Imperial College London and The City and
Guilds of London Institute. He is a Freeman of the
City of London, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company
of Wheelwrights, an Aldenham School Governor and a
Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. He is a member
of the Jordanian Order of Merit and the United
States Legion of Merit in the rank of Commander.
Since finishing his full-time military career in
1996, he has been created a life peer and held the
appointment of Master Gunner, St James's Park until
2001. He is also Chairman of the Council of Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
Chairman of Insys Limited (formerly Hunting Defence
Limited), and a Director of Vickers Defence Systems.
He became President of The Defence Manufacturers
Association in 2000 (Vice-President 1996) and
President of the Council of University Military
Education Committees in 1999. In 1998 he became
Chancellor of Cranfield University and is President
of the Cranfield Trust and Patron of the INSPIRE
Charity Foundation. He is a Member of The Pilgrims.
Has received the Order of the British Empire and is
a Knight Commander of the British Empire. Today he
is a Chancellor of Cranfield University. |
Collier, Barron Gift |
|
1873-1939 |
One of the founders of
INTERPOL and largest landowner in Florida, for whom
is named Collier County. Collier senior was chairman
of Police Magazine; special police commissioner for
New York, 1922-1928; treasurer, American Electric
Railway Association, director, Empire Trust Company;
Baltimore Commercial Bank; Bank of the Everglades;
Florida Trust & Banking Company; Waldorf Astoria
Incorporated; First National Bank of Arcadia,
Florida; Inter-County Telephone & Telegraph Company;
Manhattan Mercantile Corporation; Florida Railroad &
Navigation Corporation; Florida Gulf Coast Hotels;
Street Railways Advertising Company; and others.
Collier was a governor of the George
Washington/Sulgrave Institution and chaired the
executive committee of James Monroe Memorial
Association and Foundation. |
Collins, Richard Henn
|
|
1842-1911 |
One of the leading
judges at turn of the century. Justice of the Court
of Appeals, Supreme Court of the Judicature, and
member of the Privy Council. Master of the Rolls
from 1901 to 1907. |
Collins, Robert Moore |
|
born 1867 |
A reporter for several
important newspapers and worked as an editor in the
Washington and New York offices of the Associated
Press. He did chiefly political work for the
Associated Press. He was the chief newsman for
Reuters and the Associated Press for many stories
coming out of the Orient. |
Connelly, Joan Breton
|
|
|
A.B. in 1976
(Classics) from Princeton University. M.A. in 1979
of Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in 1984 (Classical
and Near Eastern Archaeology). Affiliations: Society
for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Trustee;
Society of Anitquaries of London; Royal Geographical
Society, Explorers Club; Society of Women
Geographers; Archaeological Institute of America;
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute
(former trustee); Oxford Philological Society;
Pilgrims of the United States. Fellowships/Honors:
Honorary Citizenship, Peyia Municipality, Republic
of Cyprus; Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching
Excellence, New York University; Appointed to the
United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee
by President George W. Bush, (February 2003); John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship;
Visiting Fellowships All Souls College, Magdalen
College and New College, Oxford; Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Fellowship; New York University
Presidential (Mellon) Fellowship; New York
University Golden Dozen Teaching Award; Metropolitan
Museum of Art Classical Fellowship and Norbert
Schimmel Fellowship. |
Corbin, Henry Clark |
|
1842-1909 |
Was a Northern Civil
War combatant as a brigadier General of volunteers.
He was detailed for duty in March 1877 at the
Executive Mansion (White House) and was secretary of
the Sitting Bull Commission. According to page 260
of the 1897-1942 Who Was Who, Corbin was "with
President Garfield at the time he was shot and at
his bedside at Elberon, where he died. In
recognition of his services, and the part he took in
war with Spain, Congress conferred upon him the rank
of major General commanding the Atlantic Division,
1904." |
Cornwallis, Lord |
|
1892-1982 |
Knight of the British
empire, directly descended from the original Lord
Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805), who invaded America
at the direction of the British Crown and fought
many battles, some directly against George
Washington. (Although he seemed to have opposed the
heavy taxes England imposed on the Colonies) The
most recent (3rd) Baron Cornwallis is Fiennes Neil
Wykeham Cornwallis, born in 1921. The name on the
Pilgrim probably referred to the second Baron
Cornwallis. |
Coudert, Frederic René |
|
1832–1903 |
His father fled France
during the revolution to escape the guillotine.
Coudert and his brothers founded Coudert Brothers
LLP in 1853 in NY. It would become a powerful law
firm, which would still exist anno 2005. Coudert
became a leading figure in New York’s legal, social
and diplomatic circles. It is believed that he twice
turned down appointments to the Supreme Court of the
United States. He is also credited with helping to
bring the Statue of Liberty to New York Harbor,
raising funds and intervening to smooth over
diplomatic entanglements. Today the firm has 27
offices in 18 countries. |
Coudert, Frederic René,
Jr. |
|
1898-1972 |
Attended Browning and
Morristown Schools in New York City; was graduated
from Columbia University in 1918 and from its law
school in 1922; served as a first lieutenant in the
One Hundred and Fifth United States Infantry,
Twenty-seventh Division, with overseas service, in
1917 and 1918; was admitted to the bar in 1923 and
commenced practice in New York City; assistant
United States attorney for the southern district of
New York in 1924 and 1925; unsuccessful Republican
candidate for district attorney of New York County
in 1929; delegate to the Republican State
conventions from 1930 to 1948; delegate to the
Republican National Conventions 1936-1948; member of
the State senate 1939-1946; elected as a Republican
to the Eightieth and to the five succeeding
Congresses (1947-1959); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress;
engaged in the practice of law in New York City;
member of State Commission on Governmental
Operations of the city of New York 1959-1961;
retired from the practice of law due to ill health
and resided in New York City, where he died May 21,
1972. |
Coudert, Alexis Carrel |
|
1914-1980 |
Kid brother of
Frederic Coudert Jr. Law clerk at the U.S. Supreme
Court 1938-1939. Law professor at Columbia
University. Director of French-American Banking
Corporation, Peugeot Motors, Pellon Corporation,
Unity Fire & General Insurance, and Planned
Parenthood of Manhattan. 25 year managing partner of
the Coudert Brothers. |
Crankshaw, Sir Eric
Norman Spencer |
|
1885-1966 |
Army
Lieutenant-Colonel, secretary of the Government
Hospitality Fund, Knight Commander of the Order of
St. Michael and St. George. Heavily involved with
British empire building surrounding WWII. He met
with many Pilgrims and organized some dinner
parties. |
Cromwell, William
Nelson |
|
1854-1948 |
Prominent lawyer in
New York, accountant with the New York law firm of
Algernon S. Sullivan, partner in Sullivan and
Cromwell 1879, established the William Nelson
Cromwell Foundation. Could be one of the direct
descendant of Oliver Cromwell, who is said to have
been sponsored by the money changers in western
Europe to take the throne of England in 1649. |
Crossley, Sir Julian
|
hon. treasurer |
1899–1971 |
Long-time chairman of
the Barclay’s Bank. |
Crowe, William J., Jr. |
|
1925-alive |
At the beginning of
the Great Depression, Crowe's father moved the
family to Oklahoma City. Crowe's Naval career began
at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland,
from which he graduated in 1947. From 1954 to 1955
he served as Assistant to the Naval Aide of
President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 1956 to 1958
Crowe served as Executive Officer of the submarine
USS Wahoo. In 1958 he served as an aide to the
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. In 1960 Crowe took
command of USS Trout, homeported in Charleston,
South Carolina, and served as Commanding Officer of
that boat until 1962. From there, Crowe earned a
Master's Degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University,
returning to service in 1966 to take command of
Submarine Division 31, homeported in San Diego,
California. Appointed Senior Adviser to the
Vietnamese Navy Riverine Force in 1970. Promoted to
Rear Admiral and made Deputy Director, Strategic
Plans, Policy, Nuclear Systems and NSC Affairs
Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in
1973. Director, East Asia and Pacific Region, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense 1975-1976.
Commander Middle East Force 1976-1977. Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations, Plans and Policy 1977-1980.
Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe
1980-1983. Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
1983-1985. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1985-1989. Chairman of the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board 1993-1994. Ambassador to
the United Kingdom 1994-1997. Chairman of two
Accountability Review Boards charged with
investigating the bombings of the embassies in
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam 1998-1999. He has sat on
the Boards of Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Pfizer, Norfolk
Southern Corporation, General Dynamics, and
GlobalOptions, Inc. At present, Crowe serves as the
Chairman of the Board of Visitors for the
International Programs Center of Oklahoma
University. Member of the Council on Foreign
Relations' Task Force on Emergency Responders.
Received the Medal of Freedom. |
Cullman, Hugh
|
|
unknown |
Unconfirmed Pilgrim,
but his cousin is. Hugh has been vice chairman of
Philip Morris Company, director of United Virginia
Bancshares, president Richmond Corp., the Foreign
Policy Association, and the International Chamber of
Commerce. |
Cullman, Joseph F. III |
|
unknown |
Trustee Bank of
England 1958-1970, president and CEO Philip Morris
Company (sixties), director Ford Motor Company, IBM,
Bankers Trust Company and others. Cullman is
well-known for stating categorically "I do not
believe that cigarettes are hazardous to one's
health", which he said in a 1971 interview after the
TV tobacco advertising ban was begun. He is a member
of the Peace Parks foundation. |
Curzon, Lord George |
|
1859-1925 |
A brilliant student,
at Eton College he won a record number of academic
prizes before entering Oxford University in 1878. He
was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1880
and although he failed to achieve a first he was
made a fellow of All Souls College in 1883. A member
of the Conservative Party, Curzon was elected MP for
Southport in 1886. It was a safe Tory seat and
Curzon neglected his parliamentary duties to travel
the world. This material provided the material for
Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the
Persian Question (1892) and Problems of the Far East
(1894). In November, 1891, Marquis of Salisbury
appointed Curzon as his secretary of state for
India. Curzon lost office when Earl of Rosebery
formed a Liberal Government in 1894. After the 1895
General Election, the Conservative Party regained
power and Curzon was rewarded with the post of under
secretary for foreign affairs. Three years later the
Marquis of Salisbury granted him the title, Baron
Curzon of Kedleston, and appointed him Viceroy of
India. Curzon introduced a series of reforms that
upset his civil servants. He also clashed with Lord
Kitchener (Freemasonry grand master), who became
commander-in-chief of the Indian Army, in 1902.
Arthur Balfour, the new leader of the Conservative
Party, began to have doubts about Curzon and in 1905
he was forced out of office. Curzon returned to
England where he led the campaign against women's
suffrage in the House of Lords. In 1908 he helped
establish the Anti-Suffrage League and eventually
became its president. In 1916 the new prime
minister, David Lloyd George, invited Curzon into
his War Cabinet. Curzon served as leader of the
House of Lords but refused to support the
government's decision to introduce the 1918
Qualification of Women Act. Despite Curzon's
objections, it was passed by the Lords by 134 votes
to 71. Curzon was appointed foreign secretary in
1919 and when Andrew Bonar Law resigned as prime
minister in May, 1923, Curzon was expected to become
the new prime minister. However, the post went to
Stanley Baldwin instead. He continued as foreign
secretary until retiring from politics in 1924. |
Cutting, Robert Fulton
|
|
1852-1934 |
Chairman City &
Suburban Homes Co., surrounded by other Pilgrims in
daily life. |
Davis, John William |
|
1873-1955 |
Democratic congressman
from West Virginia 1911-1913. U. S. Solicitor
general 1913-1918. Ambassador to Great Britain
1918-1921. Present at the 1919 Versailles Peace
Conference. President of the American
English-Speaking Union. Chairman Davis, Polk and
Wardwell law firm (clients included J.P. Morgan and
Company, and U.S. Steel). Founding president of the
Council on Foreign Relations 1921-1933. Other
founders of the CFR were Elihu Root and Paul
Warburg. Director Council on Foreign Relations
1933-1955. Rejected appointment to the U.S. Supreme
Court 1922. Democratic presidential candidate 1924.
President of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York 1931-1932. Director American Telephone &
Telegraph. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation. Davis
supported the Crusaders, which was one of the
Fascist front groups trying to overthrow FDR and his
New Deal. The main organization was American Liberty
League. He was also a main organizer of the anti-New
Deal Liberty league against FDR. |
Davison, Henry Pomeroy |
|
1867-1922 |
Jekyll Island meeting
1910. His son was in the Skull & Bones class of
1920, just as a couple of other members of the
Davison family. This family is intermarried with the
Aldrich, Rockefeller, Peabody and Stillman family
(all Pilgrims). Involved with the Red Cross during
WWI and received at least one 2 million dollar
donation from co-Pilgrim George F. Baker. |
Dawes, Charles G. |
exec. committee |
1865-1951 |
Comptroller of the
Currency 1897-1901, organized the Central Trust
Company of Illinois at Chicago in 1902, chairman of
the General Purchasing Board of the Allied
Expeditionary Forces during World War I (decided who
got the contracts), the 1924 Dawes plan to save
Germany's economy from total collapse was named
after him, Nobel Peace Prize 1925, vice President of
the United States 1925-1929, ambassador to Great
Britain 1929-1932, chairman Reconstruction Finance
Corporation starting in 1932 |
Dean, Arthur Hobson
|
|
1898-1987 |
John Dulles' Law
Partner in Sullivan & Cromwell. Special Ambassador
to Korea (1953-1954). Director Council on Foreign
Relations 1955-1972. Attended the 1957 Bilderberg
meeting. Chairman of the U.S. Delegation on Nuclear
Arms Testing, Geneva, Switzerland in 1962. Vietnam
War hawk. Member of Committee for An Effective and
Durable Peace in Asia. New York Social Register.
Century Club. Pacific Union Club. Member of the
Foreign Policy Association. Director of the UN
Association and Lazard Funds, Inc. Trustee Carnegie
Foundation. Director or trustee of the Japan
Society. |
Debs, Richard A.
|
|
alive |
CEO of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York; member of the FED's
Federal Open Market Committee; Founding president of
Morgan Stanley International and continues as a
member of its International Advisory Board; vice
chairman of the US Saudi Arabian Business Council;
chairman and a member of the New York Stock Exchange
International Committee; member of the Group of
Thirty; U.S. chairman of the Bretton Woods
Commission; served as an advisor to the World Bank,
the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, and the Russian American
Bankers Forum; trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace; chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the American University of Beirut until
2005 (joined in the board in 1976); chairman
emeritus of Carnegie Hall, where he continues to
serve on the Executive Committee, and a trustee of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Institute of International Education, Federation of
Protestant Welfare Agencies, and director of several
international business and financial corporations.
Trustee of the Institute of International Education;
He is also a member of the Economic Club of New
York, Japan Society, American Council on Germany,
and Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Fulbright
Scholar in Egypt and a Ford Foundation Fellow, and
holds a PhD from Princeton, a JD from Harvard Law
School and an AMP from the Harvard Business School.
|
Depew, Chauncey
Mitchell |
co-founder |
1834-1928 |
Yale Skull & Bones
1856, admitted to the bar 1858, United States
Minister to Japan, twice elected U.S. senator from
New York, colonel and judge advocate of the fifth
division of the New York National Guard 1873-1881,
president of the New York Central & Hudson River
railroad 1885-1899 and it's later chairman,
co-founder Pilgrim Society. |
Dillon, Clarence |
|
1882-1979 |
Harvard, studied the
methods of the money changers as Rothschild and
Morgan, American Together with James Forrestal
(president of Dillon, Read & Company 1938-1940,
later MJ-12?) he set up Foreign Securities
Corporation in 1915 to finance the French
Government’s purchases of munitions in the United
States, established National Cash Register, bought
Dodge Brothers, saved Goodyear from bankruptcy,
joined W.A. Read and Company, which evolved into
Dillon, Read & Company. Dillon, Read & Company was
one of the comapnies that made large loans to Nazi
Germany in the 1930s. It became one of the largest
investment companies in the mid-20th century. |
Dillon, Clarence
Douglas |
|
1909-2003 |
Born on a business
trip in Geneva, went to Harvard, his daughter became
Princess Joan de Luxembourg, director of United
States & Foreign Securities Corporation and United
States & International Securities Corporation,
1937-1953 (and from 1971 on again), US Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France
1953-1957, United States treasury secretary
1961-1965, director Council on Foreign Relations
1965-1976, vice-chairman Council on Foreign
Relations 1976-1978, chairman Brookings Institution
1968-1975, member Atlantic Council of the United
States, director Chase Manhattan Bank and American
Telephone & Telegraph, vice president, then
director, then chairman of the board of Dillon Read
and Company, owner of France’s Haut-Brion vineyards,
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. |
Dilworth, Joseph
Richardson |
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1916-1997 |
Yale Skull & Bones
1938, chairman of Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller
Family & Associates since 1958, director Chase
Manhattan Bank, International Basic Economy
Corporation, Selected Risk Investments, R.H. Macy,
Squibb Pharmaceuticals, Omega Fund and Diamond
Shamrock Corporation, trustee of both Yale
University and Rockefeller University, member
Council on Foreign Relations. |
Dinkey, Alva Clymer |
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1866-1931 |
From water boy in the
steel mills to self-made millionaire, first job was
in the Edgar Thompson Works, one of the plants of
the Carnegie Steel Company, became a telegraph
operator, a machinist and electrician, president of
the Carnegie Steel Company 1903-1915, president of
the Midvale Steel Company at Nicetown. |
Dorrance, John
Thompson, Jr |
|
died 1989 |
Chairman of Campbell
Soup Corporation (founded by his father). Today he
and his family are multimillionaires and
billionaires. |
Douglas, Donald
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1892-1981 |
Donald Wills Douglas,
the second son of an assistant cashier of the
National Park Bank, was born in Brooklyn, New York,
April 6, 1892, and started his education at Trinity
Chapel School in New York City. At the age of 17,
Donald Douglas entered the U.S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis where he spent much of his time building
and testing model airplanes. Left the Naval Academy
in 1912. He soon realized he needed to learn more
about his chosen career field and completed the
four-year bachelor of science program at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in only two
years. Because of his academic performance, Douglas
was immediately hired at MIT as an assistant
professor in aeronautics. Worked for different
aircraft companies. Eventually, in 1921, he founded
Douglas Aircraft, which became a world leader in the
aircraft building industry. In 1932, he started
building the DC-1 and launched his career as a
builder of transports. By 1940, sales of DC-2 and
DC-3 transports and their military derivatives rose
to nearly $61 million. Co-founder of the RAND
Corporation in 1948, a not-for-profit private
institute created out of Douglas Aircraft. Produced
some 45,000 aircraft in WWII. Donald Wills Douglas
Sr. was company president until 1957, when his son,
Donald Douglas Jr., took over that position. Donald
Douglas Sr. remained chairman of the board. At the
age of 75, on April 28, 1967, Douglas merged his
company with the McDonnell Aircraft Company and
retired. He remained honorary chairman of the
McDonnell Douglas board until his death on Feb. 1,
1981. |
Douglas, Lewis Williams |
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1894-1974 |
Fought in WWI in the
artillery from 1917 to 1919, instructor of history
at Amherst College in 1920, engaged in mining and
general business, member of the Arizona State house
of representatives 1923-1925, elected as a Democrat
to the Seventieth Congress, reelected to the three
succeeding Congresses 1927-1933, director of the
budget by President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1934,
vice president and member of the board of a chemical
company 1934-1938, principal and vice chancellor of
McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1938-1939,
president of an insurance company 1940-1947,
director Council on Foreign Relations 1940-1964,
chairman of the board on leave of absence 1947-1959,
deputy administrator of the War Shipping
Administration 1942-1944, United States Ambassador
to Great Britain 1947-1950, director General Motors
Corporation 1944-1965, chairman and director,
Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Company 1949-1966,
appointed by the President to head Government Study
of Foreign Economic Problems in 1953, member,
President’s Task Force on American Indians
1966-1967, director International Nickel Company of
Canada, director Continental Oil Company. His
daughter, Sharman Douglas, supposedly had a 2-year
lesbian affair with Queen Elizabeth II's younger
sister, Princess Margaret Windsor. She also married
Pilgrim Andrew Hay from 1968 to 1977. |
Drum, Hugh Aloysius |
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1879-1951 |
Graduated from Boston
College in 1898. Joining the Army, he was made a
second lieutenant in the 12th infantry. Climbing
quickly up the ranks, he became assistant Chief of
Staff to General Pershing in France. In 1918 he was
promoted to colonel, and became Chief of Staff of
the First Army, AEF. Following the war Colonel Drum
was engaged in various military schools. He was
promoted to Major General by 1931 and sent to
Honolulu to serve as commander. In 1940 he was
promoted to Lieutenant General in charge of the New
York national guard. From 1944 until his death, he
was the president of Empire State Inc. During his
career he was awarded the Silver Star, Distinguished
Service Medal, and the Croix de Guerre. |
Duke, James Buchanan |
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1856-1925 |
James Buchanan Duke
goes to New York to develop the new industry of
pre-rolled, packaged cigarettes. He establishes the
American Tobacco Company with money from New York
city financiers, especially Oliver Payne (advisor -
intermarried with the Whitneys) and William Collins
Whitney (Skull & Bones 1863 - comes from a family of
Pilgrims) and starts buying out the competition.
Duke made a deal with British Tobacco companies not
to invade the European market and the British
promised not to invade the American market. This
deal lasted until about 1901. In 1905, James Duke
co-founded the Southern Power Company, now known as
Duke Power, one of the companies making up Duke
Energy, Inc. Within two decades, this company is
supplying electricity to more than 300 cotton mills
and various other factories, electric lines, and
cities and towns primarily in the Piedmont region of
North and South Carolina. In 1911, the United States
Supreme Court orders the dissolution of the tobacco
trust.
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Duke, Angier Biddle |
|
1915-1995 |
From the family who
owns or owned the American Tobacco Company, Duke
Power, Duke Endowment and Duke University. Angier
has been ambassador to El Salvador 1952-1953, chief
of protocol to JFK and LBJ, ambassador to Spain
1965-1968, Denmark 1968-1969, Vietnam 1973, and
Morocco 1979-1981, chairman U.S.-Japan Foundation
1981-1986, became president of the Council of
American Ambassadors in 1992, decorated by Great
Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Morocco and
Greece. |
Dulles, John Foster
|
|
1888-1959 |
Brother of Allen W.
Dulles; Princeton and George Washington University;
special agent for Department of State in Central
America in 1917; Captain and Major in the United
States Army Intelligence Service 1917-1918;
assistant to chairman War Trade Board 1918; present
at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference; Polish Plan
of Financial Stabilization 1927; American
representative of the Berlin Debt Conferences 1933;
member of the United States delegation to the San
Francisco Conference on World Organization 1945;
adviser to Secretary of State at Council of Foreign
Ministers in London 1945; Moscow and London 1947 and
Paris 1949; representative to the General Assembly
of the United Nations 1946-1949; chairman of the
United States delegation in Paris 1948; trustee of
Rockefeller Foundation; chairman of the board of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; member
of the New York State Banking Board 1946-1949;
Republican to the United States Senate July 7, 1949
to November 8, 1949; United States representative to
the Fifth General Assembly of the United Nations
1950; consultant to the Secretary of State
1951-1952; appointed Secretary of State by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1959. |
Dulles, Allen Welsh |
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1893-1969 |
Brother of John F.
Dulles. Princeton up to 1916. Attended Cap & Gown
events, according to Kay Griggs, just as Donald
Rumsfeld, William Colby, Frank Carlucci, James
Baker, George Griggs, and George P. Shultz (August
3, 2005, Rense). Sent to Bern, Switzerland to work
under State Department senior Hugh Wilson (Skull &
Bones 1909) to collect political information on
Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1916-1918.
Joines his older brother, John Foster Dulles
(Pilgrim), and David Bruce (Pilgrim) as members of
President Woodrow Wilson's staff at the Versailles
Peace Conference in 1919. Became a partner in
Sullivan & Cromwell from 1927. Director of Schroder
Co. Director Council on Foreign Relations 1927-1933.
Secretary Council on Foreign Relations 1933-1944. In
May 1941 he urges the U.S. to enter World War II.
Recruited by OSS intelligence chief and Knight of
Malta Colonel William J. Donovan 1941. Sets up and
runs a spy post in Bern, Switserland 1942-1945.
Vice-president Council on Foreign Relations
1944-1946. Said to have been involved in Operation
Paperclip where about many German scientists and
their families were secretly imported into the
United States and placed into the
Military-Industrial complex. President Council on
Foreign Relations 1946-1950. Director Central
Intelligence Agency 1953-1961. Member of President
Johnson’s Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy 1963-1964 (forerunner of the
Warren Commission). Primary United Fruit Company
shareholder. Dulles International Airport in
Washington, D.C. is named after him. Member of the
Pilgrims Society, and the Order of Malta. Seems to
have been a member of the 'Knight's Templar'
(together with Kermit Roosevelt and Frank Wisner),
an elite intelligence group within the CIA. |
Duncan, William Butler |
president |
1830-1912 |
Born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, New York banker 1851-75, president of
Great Western Insurance Company during the American
civil war, sat together with J.P. Morgan on the
Advisory Committee of Robinson & Cox (attorneys for
United States Lloyds, one of the most powerful
institutions of the City of London), the only
American member of London's exclusive club, the
Travelers (since 1868, when relations between the
U.S. and England were strained over the Alabama
claims), president and later chairman of the board
of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, didn't attend a 1908
Pilgrim dinner (as president) due to sickness. |
Dunn, Gano |
exec. committee |
1870-1953 |
president American
Institute of Electrical Engineers 1911- 1912,
president J.G. White Engineering Corporation in 1913
(founded by a Pilgrim), member War Department
Nitrate Commission 1916-1918, chairman State
Department Special Committee on Submarine Cables
1918, chairman National Research Council 1923-1928,
executive committee member World Power Conference
1936, director Guaranty Trust Company, Panhandle
Eastern Pipeline Company and Radio Corporation of
America and National Broadcasting Company, member
U.S. Patent Office advisory committee, trustee
Greenwich Savings Bank, trustee of Barnard College,
consultant National Defense Committee, president of
the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science,
vice-president of the Pan American Society of the
U.S. |
Du Pont, Lammot
(Copeland) |
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1905-1983 |
Harvard, worked in the
laboratory of the Fabrics and Finishings Department
at DuPont’s Fairfield. In 1942 he replaced his
father, Charles Copeland, on DuPont’s Board of
Directors and was appointed to the Board’s Finance
Committee. He served on the Development Department’s
postwar planning board during World War II and
became secretary in 1947. Copeland was named vice
president and chair of the Finance Committee in 1954
and was appointed to the Executive Committee in
1959. Copeland served as DuPont’s 11th president
from 1962 to 1967. Copeland retired as president in
1967. He remained as chairman of the Board of
Directors until 1971 and continued to sit on the
board until 1982. Du Pont was also a director of
Wilmington Trust Company, a director of Christiana
Securities, father in law to James Biddle, who
married his daughter Louisa. James Biddle is a
direct descendant of Nicholas Biddle, head of the
British affiliated (Rothschild-Windsor) second Bank
of the United States. The du Pont family was the
largest funder of The American Liberty League, the
main institute behind the 1934 fascist plot against
FDR. Lammot, for example, donated at least 15.000
dollar to The American Liberty League and another
5.000 dollar to similar organisations. |
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