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Eells, Richard |
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unknown |
Received A.B., M.A.
and LL.D. degrees from Whitman College and Princeton
University and is presently Professor of Business
(Emeritus) at Columbia University, and Special
Advisor to the President of Columbia University;
also special advisor to the president of the New
York Botanical Garden. During his past 15 years
service at Columbia University he was Director of
Studies of the Modern Corporation, adjunct professor
of Business, and councillor to the Dean of Graduate
School of Business. Previously, manager of Public
Policy Research, General Electric Company (NYC) for
ten years. Field director, Near East College
Association (AUB and others). Following military
service in the USAF, he was Chief of the Division of
Aeronautics and Holder of the Guggenheim Chair of
Aeronautics, The Library of Congress (Washington,
D.C.). He has received grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation and Sloan Foundation and has served as
consultant to IBM, General Electric, Rockefeller
Bros. Fund, and others. He is the author and
co-author of fifteen books on corporate social
policy matters (and spionage) and the editor of
thirty-five volumes on business matters. |
Ekblom, Harry E.
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1915-alive |
Retired as chairman
and CEO of European-American Banking Corporation in
2002. He had been a member of the board since 1984.
Partner in Ekblom & Ekblom LLC and president of
Harry E. Ekblom & Co. Inc. He is the former vice
chairman of A.T. Hudson & Co. Inc. Director Harris &
Harris Group Inc. |
Eliot, Ellsworth, Jr |
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1864-1945 |
Yale; joined the
surgical staff of Presbyterian Hospital in 1893; he
remained at the Hospital as an Attending Surgeon
until 1918 and was thereafter consultant in surgery
until his death. He was Chief of Surgery of
Vanderbilt Clinic of P&S from 1895 to 1900 and at
various times held surgical professorships at both
P&S and the Cornell University Medical College.
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Esher, Viscount
Reginald |
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unknown |
Usually described as
"secretive" or "mysterious" together with "lot's of
influence". Wrote confidential memoranda for Queen
Victoria. Supposedly had bizarre sexual interests
and stood in contact with the Rothschild family. A
British statesman who stood in close contact with
Pilgrim Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s father. |
Evans, James H. |
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1920-alive |
University of Chicago
Law School, high positions at Reuben H. Donnelley
Corp., Dun & Bradstreet Inc., and the Seamen's bank
for Savings, in the navy during WWII, chairman 1965
Red Cross Campaign for Greater New York, chairman of
the Union Pacific Corporation, director Citicorp,
AT&T, Bristol-Myers, General Motors Corp. and
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., governor Foreign
Policy Association, trustee Rockefeller Brothers
Fund, University of Chicago and the American Youth
Foundation, Bohemian Grove visitor. |
Fairhaven, Lord |
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1896-1966 |
Had mining and
railroad interests in the United States, which were
created by his father. Much of the American fortune,
which the 1st Lord Fairhaven inherited, was
energetically deployed in the collection of works of
art and the Abbey is now the permanent home of an
outstandingly rich collection of furniture, pictures
and art objects. Lord Fairhaven was also involved
with landscape gardening. |
Farish, William Stamps
III |
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born 1939 |
Farish is an American
millionaire. Owner of a trust company in Houston,
Texas called W.S. Farish & Co. US Ambassador to the
United Kingdom 2001-2004. Member of the Council of
American Ambassadors. Horse-breeder. Chairman of
Churchill Downs. Major Republican Party donor and a
family friend of President George W. Bush for
several decades. He was awarded an honorary Doctor
of Laws from the University of Kentucky in 2003.
When George Bush was elected vice president in 1980,
Texas mystery man William Stamps Farish III took
over management of all of George Bush's personal
wealth in a "blind trust." Known as one of the
richest men in Texas, Will Farish keeps his business
affairs under the most intense secrecy. Only the
source of his immense wealth is known, not its
employment. Will Farish has long been Bush's closest
friend and confidante. He is also the unique private
host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth: Farish owns and
boards the studs which mate with the Queen's mares.
That is her public rationale when she comes to
America and stays in Farish's house. On March 25,
1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold
announced that William Stamps Farish (grandfather of
the President's money manager) had pleaded "no
contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the
Nazis. Farish was the principal manager of a
worldwide cartel between Standard Oil of New Jersey
and the
I.G. Farben
concern. The merged enterprise
had opened the Auschwitz slave labor camp on June
14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline
from coal. |
Faulkner, Sir Eric Odin
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1914-1994 |
Educated at Bradfield
and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Artillery, chairman
Union Discount Co. 1959-1970, chairman Glyn, Mills &
Co., chairman of Lloyd’s Bank (City of London),
governor Hudson's Bay Co., director of Vickers,
advisory director of Unilever, negotiated with rebel
Rhodesian leader Ian Smith in 1965 at the directions
of the Prime-Minister of England, chairman British
Bankers' Association 1972-1973 and 1980-1984,
chairman Committee of London Clearing Bankers from
1972-1974, chairman Industrial Society 1973-1976,
Order of the British Empire 1974, organized the
formation of the City Communications Organisation in
1976 (City of London interests). |
Field, Marshall |
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1834-1906 |
Owned Marshall Field &
Company which had factories in the U.S., Europe,
China and Australia. He owned stocks and bonds in
about one hundred and fifty corporations, and he was
a director of many. He owned many millions of bonds
and stocks in railroads. The history of many of them
reeked with thefts of public and private money;
corruption of common councils, of legislatures,
Congress and of administrative officials; land
grabbing, fraud, illegal transactions, violence and
oppression not only of their immediate workers, but
of the entire population. He owned Baltimore & Ohio
stock; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Chicago &
Northwestern, and tens of millions more of the stock
or bonds of fifteen other railroads. He also owned
an immense assortment of the stocks of a large
number of trusts. The affairs of these trusts have
been shown in court, at some time or other, as
overflowing with fraud, the most glaring
oppressions, and violations of law. |
Flagler, Henry Morrison |
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1830-1913 |
His mother was from
the Harkness family, worked at L.G. Harkness and
Company, partner in the newly organized D. M.
Harkness and Company in 1952, married married Mary
Harkness in 1853, founded the Flagler and York Salt
Company in 1862, the end of the Civil War caused a
drop in the demand for salt and the Flagler and York
Salt Company collapsed, bringing him heavily into
debt, after borrowing money he reentered the grain
business as a commission merchant and became
acquainted with John D. Rockefeller, Rockefeller,
Andrews and Flagler start Standard Oil in 1870 (with
a loan from National City Bank of Cleveland) and two
years later it will dominate the US oil market,
Flagler later goes into the railroad business and
becomes the second largest land owner in Florida. |
Forbes, Malcolm
Stevenson, Sr. |
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1917-1990 |
Son of the Forbes
Magazine founder. A 1941 graduate of Princeton
University. Publisher of Forbes magazine 1964-1990.
Legendary for his lavish lifestyle, his private
Capitalist Tool jet, his Highlander yachts, and huge
art collection. Has a substantial collection of
Harley Davidson motorbikes. Member of the Bohemian
Grove and the Pilgrims Society. Member of the
American Society of the Most Venerable Order of the
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
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Forbes, Malcolm
Stevenson "Steve", Jr. |
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1947-alive |
Princeton. President
and editor-in-chief Forbes Magazine. Director
Americas Society. Lost the 1996 presidential
nomination to Bob Dole. Lost the 2000 presidential
nomination to George W. Bush. |
Forbes, Christopher
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Christopher Forbes
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History
from Princeton University in 1972. Director of
Forbes, Inc. since 1977. Corporate Secretary at
Forbes 1981-1989. Appointed to the Board of Regents
of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York
City. in 1987. Vice-chairman of Forbes Inc. since
1989. He is responsible for Forbes’ advertising and
promotion departments. Director of Senesco
Technologies since 1999 (genetech). Director of
Raffles Holdings. Sits on the Boards of The New York
Historical Society, The Newark Museum, The Business
Committee for the Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, The
Friends of New Jersey State Museum, The New York
Academy of Art, The Victorian Society in America,
The Princess Margarita Foundation and the Prince
Wales Foundation. He is also a member of the Board
of Advisors of The Princeton University Art Museum,
a National Trustee of the Baltimore Museum of Art,
and serves on the Advisory Committee of the
Department of European Decorative Arts of the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston. Member of the Knickerbocker,
The Century Association, The Brook, Essex Hunt,
Grolier, American Society of the Most Venerable
Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. |
Franklin, George S.,
Jr. |
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unknown |
His father was a CFR
director. Franklin Jr. attended Harvard University
and was a roommate of David Rockefeller. Franklin
was a Council on Foreign Relations executive
director from 1953 to 1971. Franklin was the first
secretary of the Atlantic Council of the United
States, co-founded by Pilgrim Dean Acheson. Franklin
was a co-founder of the Trilateral Commission in
1973, together with David Rockefeller, and became a
secretary of this Commission in later years. |
Fraser, Leon |
exec. committee |
born 1889 |
Law professor and
trustee at Columbia University 1914-1917. Director
NY Federal Reserve Bank. President of the First
National Bank of New York. President of the Bank for
International Settlements. Director of General
Electric, U.S. Steel, and Mutual Life Insurance of
New York. Director Council on Foreign Relations
1936-1945 |
Fréchette, Louise |
Guest speaker |
1946-alive |
Received a Bachelor of
Arts degree from College Basile Moreau. She earned a
degree in history from the University of Montreal in
1970 and a post-graduate diploma in economic studies
at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium in 1978.
Ms. Fréchette began her career in 1971 in Canada's
Department of External Affairs. She was part of her
country's delegation to the General Assembly in
1972, and then served as Second Secretary at the
Canadian Embassy in Athens until 1975. From 1975 to
1977, Ms. Fréchette worked in the European Affairs
Division in Canada's Department of External Affairs.
Returning to Europe, she served as First Secretary
at the Canadian Mission to the United Nations in
Geneva from 1978 to 1982. During that period, she
participated in a session of the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Madrid
from November 1980 to July 1981. After serving as
Deputy Director of the Trade Policy Division in the
Department of External Affairs from 1982 to 1983,
Ms. Fréchette became Director of the European Summit
Division from 1983 to 1985. She received her first
ambassadorship in 1985, serving as Canada's
ambassador to Argentina with concurrent
accreditation to Uruguay and Paraguay. Ms. Fréchette
was named Assistant Deputy Minister for Latin
America and the Caribbean in the Department of
External Affairs and international trade in October
1988. In that capacity, she directed a review of
Canada's relations with the region, which led to
Canada's entry into the Organization of American
States (OAS). In January 1991 she became Assistant
Deputy Minister for Economic Policy and Trade
Competitiveness. She served as Permanent
Representative of Canada to the United Nations from
1992 to 1995. Deputy Minister of National Defence of
Canada from 1995 to 1998. Became the first Deputy
Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1998.
Also chairs the steering committee on U.N. Reform
and Management Policy. In 1998, she was appointed
Officer of the Order of Canada. Spoke to the
Canadian Institute of International Affairs in 1998.
In 1999, when corruption in the oil-for-food program
was rampant, Frechette intervened directly to stop
United Nations auditors from forwarding their
investigations to the U.N. Security Council. She and
he assistant Iqbal Riza were hiding and shredding
years of documents. In 2000 she attended a
Bilderberg meeting. Gave a speech to the annual
luncheon meeting of the Pilgrims of the United
States in New York on April 25, 2001. |
Funston, George Keith
|
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1910-1992 |
A banker's son, he
worked his way through Trinity College and Harvard
Business School before becoming a salesman for
American Radiator, and later, Sylvania. President
Trinity College 1945-1951. President New York Stock
Exchange 1951-1967. Chairman Olin Mathieson Chemical
Co. 1967-1972. Director Illinois Central Industries,
National Aviation Corporation, Putnam Trust Company,
Chemical Bank, IBM, Metropolitan Life Insurance,
Republic Steel, Winn Dixie Stores, Avco Corporation,
Paul Revere Investors, and more. |
Gallatin, Eugene
|
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1881-1952 |
Great grandson of
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849 - born in Geneva in an
old noble family), who was a U.S. Treasury Secretary
between 1801 and 1814. During the War of 1812,
Albert made it possible for his associate, John
Jacob Astor, to transport his furs across the battle
lines. Albert also was a U.S. diplomat to England
and France. Eugene Gallatin was a professional art
collector. |
Gardner, John W. |
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1912-2002 |
B.A. and M.A. in
psychology from Stanford University, Ph.D. from the
University of California, analyzed enemy propaganda
broadcast to Latin America 1942-1943. Marine Corps
and the OSS 1943-1945. Joined the Carnegie
Corporation in 1946. President of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York and the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching 1955-1965. Founder
and chairman of Common Cause (lobby force of private
citizens). Edited a volume of JFK's speeches and
position papers. Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under LBJ
1965-1968. Chairman of the National Urban Coalition
(group of leaders who came together to tackle the
problems of race and poverty that underlay the
nationwide riots of 1968). Governor Nelson
Rockefeller asked Gardner to fill Kennedy's vacant
Senate seat (he declined) 1968. Trustee Stanford
University 1968-1982. Founder and chairman of
Independent Sector 1980-1983 (lobby force of private
citizens). Director Institute of Medicine. Member of
The Scientific Advisory Board of the Air Force.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory. Director or advisor of Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, Rockefeller University, Shell Oil
Company, American Airlines, the Enterprise
Foundation and National Center for Action. Member
Council on Foreign Relations. Founding member of the
national advisory board of the Haas Center. John W.
Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities was
established at Stanford University in 2000. |
Gates, Thomas
Sovereign, Jr. |
|
1906-1983 |
Son of an investment
banker. Graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1928 and joined the investment
banking firm of Drexel and Company in Philadelphia.
Became became a partner in 1940. Rose to the rank of
lieutenant commander in the Navy 1940-1945.
Under-secretary of the Navy 1953-1957. Secretary of
the Navy 1957-1959. Secretary of defense 1959-1961,
who authorized U-2 reconnaissance flights. Director
and president Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
1961-1965. CEO and chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company in 1965. Nixon appointed him chairman of the
Advisory Commission on an All-Volunteer Force, which
presented its influential report in November 1969.
Ambassador to China 1976-1977. Member Council on
Foreign Relations. Member Pilgrims Society. Member
Bohemian Grove. |
Gerard , James W. |
vice-president |
1867-1951 |
Lawyer, New York state
Supreme Court justice 1908-1913 (Hearst's newspapers
opposed his appointment), ambassador to Germany
1913-1917 and expelled when the submarine war
against the U.S. began, treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee 1914-1932, again New York state
Supreme Court justice 1917-1921, delegate to
Democratic National Convention from New York in
1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1944 and 1948. |
Giffard, Lord Hardinge
Stanley |
|
1825-1921 |
A leading barrister,
politician and government minister, serving as
Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor (1886-1892 and
1895-1905) of Great Britain. His lasting legacy was
the compilation of a the complete digest of "Laws of
England" (1905-1916), a major reference work
published in many volumes and often called simply
"Halsbury's". "Halsbury's Laws" was followed by a
second multiple-volume reference work in 1929,
"Halsbury's Statutes", and later by "Halsbury's
Statutory Instruments". During the crisis over the
Parliament Act of 1911, Halsbury was one of the
principal leaders of the rebel faction of Tory peers
that resolved on all out opposition to the
government's bill. Giffard was also President of the
Royal Society of Literature, Grand Warden of English
Freemasons, and High Steward of the University of
Oxford. |
Gifford, Walter S.
|
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1885-1966 |
Undergraduate from
Harvard. President of American Telephone and
Telegraph (AT&T) from 1925 to 1949.
Videoconferencing was first introduced in 1926 when
Walter S. Gifford used Video Teleconferencing to
speak with the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert
Hoover. US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from
1950-1953. |
Gilpatrick, Roswell L.
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unknown |
Deputy Secretary of
Defense under Kennedy, special adviser to Kennedy
and part of his "Special Group" (on Cuba), director
CBS, trustee Rockefeller Brothers Fund, member
Council on Foreign Relations. |
Gordon, Albert Hamilton |
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1901-alive |
Received his MBA at
Harvard, one of the old banking titans, acquired the
investment banking house of Kidder, Peabody & Co. in
1931 and chaired it until 1968, opened offices of
this company in Hong Kong and Japan, director of
Sloan Kettering Hospital, Paine Webber Inc., The
Americas Society, and the New York Road Runners
Club, member Council on Foreign Relations. |
Gould, Edwin |
|
1866-1933 |
Jay Gould’s son
(famous for being extremely cruel), chairman of the
St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad which owned the
Arkansas & Texas Railway, director Paragould &
Southeastern Railway, director Bowling Green Trust
Company, consolidated competition into the Diamond
Match Company in 1899, member Jekyll Island Georgia
Club, member of the Pilgrims of New York in 1903. |
Gould, Samuel B. |
|
1910-alive |
M.A. degree from New
York University 1936, during World War II he served
as an officer in the Navy, president of Antioch
College for five years, president Boston University
for six years, first chancellor of the Santa Barbara
State College 1959-1962, director of National
Commercial Bank & Trust, American Council on
Education, chairman of the Institute of Man and
Science, chairman Research Foundation of the State
University of New York, trustee John D. Rockefeller
III Fund, Salk Institute Educational Records Bureau
Kettering Foundation, and other positions. |
Grace, J. Peter |
|
1913-1995 |
Bachelor of Arts from
Yale University in 1936, president and CEO of the
chemical giant W.R. Grace & Co. 1945-1992 (also big
in South-America), director Citibank, chairman of
the Order of the Knights of Malta in the United
States, chairman National Jewish Center for
Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, president
Catholic Youth Organization for the Archdiocese of
New York, member Willard Garvey's International
conference on privatizing education, chairman of the
American Institute for Free Labor Development,
involved in Project Paperclip 1945, trustee American
Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism 1950
(Pilgrim Heinz II also), involved with Radio Liberty
and Radio Free Europe in which Fascists and the CIA
were involved, chairman President’s Private Sector
Survey on Cost Control (under Reagan), chairman
Advisory Committee of AmeriCares 1982-1995 (involved
with Bush, Brzezinski & Powell), director Friends of
the Democratic Center in Central America (involved
the Iran-Contra affair), member and governor Council
for National Policy, member Council on Foreign
Relations, member 1001 Club, member Newcomen
Society. |
Graham, William J.
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1877-1963 |
News message about his
death: William J. Graham, long a prominent actuary
and outstanding insurance executive, died February
11, 1963, in Southside Hospital, Bay Shore, Long
Island, at the age of 85. Mr. Graham's name became
almost synonymous with the development of group
insurance during the first half of the century. He
was frequently re- ferred to as the, "Father of
Group Insurance," for he played a key part in the
1911 discussions with the Montgomery Ward Company
which led to the first of the modern forms of group
insurance. From that point on, Mr. Graham crusaded
for the use of group insurance in industry and
commerce, and he was personally responsible for much
of its spectacular growth and en- largement into the
fields of annuities and health. Mr. Graham was born
in Louisville, Kentucky, September 23, 1877. A
graduate of Xavier College in Louisville, he also
held an M.A. from St. Fran- cis Xavier College in
New York. In 1938 he was awarded an honorary LL.D.
from Hobart College. His mathematical aptitude early
led him into the actuarial field. He be- came an
Associate of the Actuarial Society of America at 21,
and four years later became a Fellow. Later, he
became a Charter Member of the Casualty Actuarial
Society and an Associate of the British Institute of
Actuaries. Mr. Graham started his insurance career
as an actuary with the Sun Life Insurance Company of
America (Louisville) in 1898, and from 1902 to 1905
he served on the actuarial staff of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. In 1905 his career gained
considerable momentum through the service he
rendered as consulting actuary (jointly with S.
Herbert Wolfe) to the investi- gation of the life
insurance companies of New York conducted by a group
of state insurance departments. Almost
simultaneously, he was invited to help reorganize
the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company,
which he served'as a vice-president, actuary, and
director from 1905 to 1911. Mr. Graham joined the
Equitable as western superintendent of agencies in
1911. When the Equitable established a Group
Insurance Department the following year, he was made
its superintendent. He thereafter rapidly rose,
becoming vice president in 1929. He was elected a
member of the Equitable's Board of Directors in 1937
and given charge of all agency activities, both
group and ordinary. After more than 37 years of
service with the Equitable, he retired on June 30,
1948, continuing, however, to serve on Equitablc's
Board until December 31, 1958. Among Mr. Graham's
innumerable writings was an insurance bestseller
entitled The Romance of Life Insurance. Appearing
first as a series of arti- cles in the 1908 issues
of The World Today, it told a constructive story of
life insurance which was much needed in those
post-investigation days. Mr. Graham's broad human
sympathies caused his interests to spread far beyond
his employment and even beyond the insurance field.
He headed the Insurance Institute of America and
served as vice-president of the New York Chamber of
Commerce; president of the American Management
Association (which he helped to found); director of
the American Arbitration Associa- tion; chairman of
the Group Association; member of the Insurance
Commit- tee of the United States Chamber of
Commerce; governor of the National Industrial
Conference Board; and a member of the New York
Southern So- ciety. His New York club memberships
included the Links, Nassau County, and the Pilgrims.
He was also a member of the Pendennis Club in Louis-
ville; the Royal Societies in London, England; and
the Kentuckians. An imaginative, courageous, and
dedicated master builder, Mr. Graham has left an
indelible imprint not only on the insurance world,
but on the social and economic life of our country.
A hard taskmaster, he commanded and en- joyed great
admiration, respect, and loyalty on all sides. His
engaging, attrac- tive personality, and his endless
drive and enthusiasm won him high praise not only as
an expert technician but as one of the best all
round salesmen in the insurance world. Mr. Graham is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. William S. Adams, Jr.,
and four grandchildren. |
Greenwood, Lord Hamar |
chairman |
1870-1948 |
Canadian-born Liberal
member of parliament 1906-1922. Secretary of the
Overseas Trade Department 1919-1920. Chief Secretary
for Ireland 1920-1922. Conservative Member of
parliament 1924-1929. Treasurer Conservative Party.
Baron since 1929. Viscount since 1937. Director of
one of England's greatest steel firms - Dorman,
Long, and Company. President British Iron and Steel
Federation 1938-1939. |
Grenfell, Lord William Henry |
chairman |
1855-1945 |
Lord Desborough.
Athlete, sportsman, and public servant. He filled
almost all the offices in local government and local
justice which were open to him in Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire, and it has been calculated that at
one time he was actually serving on no fewer than
115 committees, where his services were recognized
as of real value. During the war of 1914-18 he was
president of the Central Association of Volunteer
Training Corps which passed more than a million men
into the regular army and was eventually taken over
by the War Office. In 1915 he represented the
minister of munitions in France. Appointed chairman
of the British Olympic Association in 1905. Chairman
of the London Pilgrims 1919-1929. In 1921, he
declined for family reasons, to become
Governor-General of Canada. |
Grenfell, Sir William
(Max-Muller) |
|
1867-1945 |
A British diplomat.
This person was a member from the Grenfell family of
Grenfell & Company, a British merchant bank, that
merged with Morgan to become Morgan, Grenfell &
Company. These days it still exists as Morgan
Grenfell Asset Management, which is owned by
Deutsche Bank. Pilgrim Lord Desborough was also a
Grenfell. |
Grey, Lord Edward
|
president |
1862-1933 |
1st Viscount Grey of
Fallodon. Educated at Winchester College and at
Balliol College, Oxford. Elected to the House of
Commons as a Liberal in 1885, having previously
succeeded to his grandfather's baronetcy in 1882. He
served under Lord Rosebery as Parliamentary
Undersecretary for the Foreign Office in Gladstone's
last government, from 1892 to 1895. During the Boer
War (1899-1902), when the Liberals split between
radical Pro-Boers and Liberal Imperialists, Grey
stood decidedly on the side of the Imperialists like
Rosebery and Herbert Henry Asquith. Foreign
Secretary 1905-1916. In 1914, Grey played a key role
in the crisis leading to the outbreak of World War
I. His attempts to mediate the dispute between
Austria-Hungary and Serbia by a "Stop in Belgrade"
came to nothing due to the tepid German response,
and when Germany declared war on France (3 August)
and invaded Belgium (4 August), Grey was able to
muster enough support to bring Britain into the war
on August 4, 1914, despite initial radical wariness.
In the early years of the war, Grey negotiated
several important secret treaties, bringing Italy
into the war (1915) and promising Russia the Turkish
Straits. He maintained his position as Foreign
Secretary when the Conservatives came into the
government to form a coalition in May 1915, but when
the Asquith government fell due to machinations
between Lloyd George and the Tories, Grey went into
opposition. Liberal Leader in the House of Lords in
1923-1924. Presided over a 1930 Pilgrims dinner
attended by the international delegates of the
London Naval Conference. He is probably best
remembered for a remark he supposedly made to a
friend one evening just before the outbreak of the
First World War, as he watched the lights being lit
on the street below his office: "The lamps are going
out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again
in our lifetime." |
Grosvenor, Gerald
Cavendish |
|
1951-alive |
6th Duke of
Westminster. His wife can be traced directly to the
Russian Peter the Great, personal fortune is
estimated at 5 billion pounds, chairman Grosvenor
Group, owns over 300 acres of the best property in
downtown London, plus large land holdings in Canada,
Australia, Hawaii and elsewhere, possibly a partner
of the Royal Bank of Scotland through the National
Westminster Bank, Knight of the Order of the Garter. |
Guthrie, Lord
|
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1938-alive |
General Lord Guthrie
of Craigiebank. He was educated at Harrow School and
went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1957
and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1959.
He served with his Regiment as a young officer in
the United Kingdom, Libya, Germany and Aden. In 1966
he joined the SAS and served in the Middle East,
Malaysia and East Africa. In 1970 he returned to the
Welsh Guards and for two years commanded an armoured
infantry company in Germany. After a year as a
student at the Staff College, he served in the
Ministry of Defence as the Assistant to the Head of
the Army, the Chief of the General Staff. From
1975-1977 he was the Brigade Major of the Household
Division and from 1977-1980 he commanded the Welsh
Guards in Berlin and Northern Ireland. He was
appointed as a Colonel to the branch overseeing
operations worldwide and during his time there
became briefly the Commander British Forces New
Hebrides (Vanuatu) and recaptured the island of
Espirito Santo, which had been taken over by
insurgents. Awarded the Order of the British Empire
in 1980. In 1981 he was appointed Commander of the
4th Armoured Brigade in Munster, West Germany,
following which he was Chief of Staff, Headquarters
1st British Corps in Bielefeld. He became the
General Officer Commanding the 2nd Infantry Division
and North East District in 1985. In 1986 he became
Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Corps.
Knighted in 1990. Knight Grand Cross of the Order of
the Bath 1994. After a further tour in the Ministry
of Defence he became in succession the Commander of
the 1st British Corps, the Northern Army Group, the
British Army of the Rhine before becoming the Chief
of the General Staff and finally the Chief of the
Defence Staff (1997-2001). CFR/MORI report 2001: "In
his valedictory speech to the Pilgrims Society in
London in May of this year, the outgoing Chief of
the British Defence Staff, Field Marshall Lord
Guthrie, stated that the USA was the most important
ally Britain had ever had, and that NATO was its
most important alliance." Colonel of the Life Guards
and Gold Stick to the Queen in 1999 and Colonel
Commandant of the SAS in 2000. Became Lord Guthrie
of Craigiebank in June 2001. Joined N.M. Rothschild
& Sons at the latest in 2002. Annual visitor of the
Trilateral Commission since 2002. Member of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies in
London. Member of the steering committee of the
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).
Member of the European Council of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev. In December 2002, Blair
sent Lord Guthrie and Jack Straw to Turkey as an
unofficial military envoy to shore up support for an
invasion of Iraq and to discuss plans to remove
Saddam Hussein from power. Became a non-executive
special advisor of Aon Special Risks in 2004, a
leading Counter-Terrorism, Political Risks and
Kidnap and Ransom insurance broker and risk
consultant. Freeman of the City of London, a member
of the Knights of Malta, and a Commander of the
Legion of Merit USA. Member of the House of Lords.
In May 2004 Guthrie said at a conference on
terrorism that terrorists might kill millions in the
future due to biological or even nuclear weapons. He
also said that he did not think that Iraq had
nuclear weapons, but that this was an understandable
mistake of the Bush Administration. In that same
year he stated that Syria was one of the largest
supporters of terrorism and has been exploiting
Lebanon for a long time. Attended a discussion of
the Windsor Leadership Trust in 2005. October 7,
2001, The Observer: "Lord Guthrie, the suave former
British Chief of Defence Staff, has been a close
friend of [Pakistani president] Musharraf for more
than 20 years." |
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