Descendants
Isaac's 20th child, Winnaretta Singer, married Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard in 1887, when she was 22. After the annulment of this marriage in 1891, she married Prince Edmond de Polignac in 1893. She would become a prominent patron of French avant-garde music, e.g., Erik Satie composed his Socrate as one of her commissions (1918). As a lesbian, she became involved with Violet Trefusis from 1923 on.
Another of Isaac's daughters, Isabelle-Blanche Singer (1869–1896), married Jean, duc de Decazes; Daisy Fellowes was their daughter. Isabelle-Blanche committed suicide in 1896.
Isaac's firstborn son, William Singer, who died in 1914, was (by his marriage to Sarah Webb) a brother-in-law of William Seward Webb and his wife Eliza Vanderbilt. William's daughter, Florence Singer (subsequently Countess van Dyhrn), married into European nobility as well as her aunts Winaretta and Isabelle did.
A brother to Winnaretta and Isabelle, Paris Singer, had a child by Isadora Duncan. Another brother, Washington Singer, became a substantial donor to the University College of the South-West of England, which later became the University of Exeter; one of the university's buildings is named in his honour.
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