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George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (February 27, 1925 – October 19, 2020) was an American businessman who was the owner and chairman of Biltmore Farms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (1924–2019) George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020) John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough (1926–2014), 6th generation (3 × great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt) William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017) Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928) Lady Rosemary Spencer-Churchill (born 1929)
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
The Cecils were descendants of William Cecil. [13] The nationally renowned organist from St. Louis Charles Henry Galloway played organ at the wedding. They divorced in 1934. [14] Cornelia Vanderbilt and Cecil were the parents of two sons: [15] George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020), who married Nancy Owen (1930–2016). [16]
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020), who married Nancy Owen (1930–2016). [ 5 ] William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017) [ 6 ] who married Mary Lee Ryan (1931–2017), [ 7 ] a first cousin of First Lady Jackie Kennedy , as their mothers, Janet Norton Lee and Marion Merritt Lee, were sisters.
George Washington Vanderbilt, John Singer Sargent, 1890 George W. Vanderbilt II was the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. Though there is no evidence to suggest that he referred to himself using a numerical suffix, various sources have called him both George Washington Vanderbilt II and III.
Vanderbilt inherited a trust fund that was worth $5 million in 1925 (roughly $70 million today) after her father's death, and according to celebritynetworth.com, was worth $200 million at the time ...
Through his third son, he was grandfather to George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil (1925–2020), the owner and operator of Biltmore Farms, and William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (1928–2017), the operator of the Biltmore Estate through his company, The Biltmore Company. [23]