Lion Gardiner - Biography - Descendants

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.