Descendants
Lion Gardiner's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include:
- David Gardiner, New York State Senator, father of Julia Gardiner Tyler
- Julia Gardiner Tyler, daughter of David Gardiner; second wife of President John Tyler; First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845
- Gardiner Greene Hubbard, lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. He was one of the founders of the Bell Telephone Company and the first president of the National Geographic Society.
- Aaron Bancroft, clergyman, husband of Lucretia Chandler, daughter of John Chandler
- Eliza Bancroft, married to John Davis, lawyer, businessman and governor of Massachusetts
- George Bancroft, historian and statesman
- Chevalier Benjamin C. Bradlee, Vice President-at-Large of the Washington Post, Fmr. Executive Editor of the Washington Post during Watergate
- Quinn Bradlee, Founder and Community Mannager of FriendsOfQuinn.com
- Alfred Conkling, U.S. Representative, judge of the District Court for the Northern District of New York, U.S. Minister to Mexico
- Roscoe Conkling, U.S. Senator, Republican political boss from New York
- Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., judge of the District Court for the Northern District of New York and later the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, author
- Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr., judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Louis O. Coxe, poet, playwright, and professor from Maine best known for the Broadway version of Billy Budd
- Bancroft Davis married Frederika Gore King, the daughter of U.S. Representative James Gore King
- Horace Davis, a United States Representative from California
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador to South Vietnam, Ambassador to West Germany; Special Envoy to the Holy See; 1960 Republican nominee for Vice President
- George C. Lodge, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School
- John Davis Lodge, actor, Republican politician; U.S. Representative; governor of Connecticut; ambassador to Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, lawyer, editor and poet.
- Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, first full-time editor and president of the National Geographic Society.
- Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, is past president and chief executive of the National Geographic Society, as well as a former editor of National Geographic Magazine.
- Melville Bell Grosvenor, was the president of the National Geographic Society and editor of National Geographic Magazine from 1957 to 1969.
- Mabel Gardiner Hubbard married Alexander Graham Bell, an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
- Winthrop Gardiner, Jr., the 14th Proprietor of Gardiners Island. He married Norwegian figure skater and actress, Sonja Henie. After his divorce from actress Mildred Shay.
- Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wells, married Schuyler Hamilton, Jr., the son of Schuyler Hamilton and great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton
- Selah Brewster Strong, lawyer and politician from New York
- Marcius D. Raymond, publisher, writer, genealogist, editor, historian
- David Gardiner Tyler, Democratic lawyer and politician, Virginia State Senator, U.S. Representative, son of president John Tyler
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler, educator and historian, another son of president John Tyler
- Alexandra Creel Goelet, current owner of Gardiners Island. The Goelets offered to place a conservation easement on the island in exchange for a promise from the town of East Hampton not to up-zone the land, change its assessment, or attempt to acquire it by condemnation. The Goelets and East Hampton agreed upon the easement through 2025.
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Famous quotes containing the word descendants:
“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (7019 B.C.)
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859)
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)