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Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, later Cecil, later Bulkely-Johnson, later Goodsir (August 22, 1900 – February 7, 1976) [1] was an American born heiress and member of the Vanderbilt family who inherited the Biltmore Estate. [2] She was known for her eccentric behavior. [3]
Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (15 January 1891 – 14 February 1968) [1] was the aide-de-camp to Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, the Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1918. He served in the offices of the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I from 1918 to 1919, and in the Air Ministry from 1919 to 1922.
In 1924, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt at All Souls Cathedral in Biltmore Village. Cornelia was the only child of the late George Washington Vanderbilt II and the former Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. [3] The following year, Cornelia's mother married Peter Goelet Gerry, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, in London. [4]
Captain Honourable Thomas James Amherst Cecil (1887–1955), who married Vera Agnes Barclay (born 1888), granddaughter of Alexander Charles Barclay Honourable John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954), who married Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976), daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser in 1924.
Portrait of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, attributed to Hendrick Couturier, c. 1660 Portrait of Peter Stuyvesant (1727–1805) by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1793 –1795. Gov. Stuyvesant's house, erected 1658, afterwards called The Whitehall Augustus and Anne Van Horne Stuyvesant's home at 2 East 79th Street Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's statue of Peter Stuyvesant in the western half of Stuyvesant Square ...
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.
On September 6, 1785, [7] at the age of twenty, he married Cornelia Stuyvesant (d. 1825) at the New York City Dutch Church. [8] She was a daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant (1727–1805) and Margaret (née Livingston ) Stuyvesant (1738–1818) and a sister of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant . [ 9 ]
The Hon. Mrs John Francis Amherst Cecil (née Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt) on 29 April 1924 [424] Princess Viggo of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess af Rosenborg (née Eleanor Margaret Green) on 10 June 1924 [425] Barbara Stuart, Countess of Moray (née Barbara Murray) on 21 June 1924 [426]