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The Biltmore Estate in 2006. Cornelia was born at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina on August 22, 1900. [4] She was the daughter, and only child, [5] of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). [6]
On June 1, 1898, she married George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), the owner of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.Together, they had one daughter Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976), who married John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954), son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney.
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 fund is inspired by the legacy of George and Edith Vanderbilt. The Biltmore Announces $2 Million Relief Fund in the Wake of Hurricane Helene Skip to main content
George Cecil's company, called Biltmore Farms, focused on development, including Biltmore Park. [1] George and Edith Vanderbilt were very environmentally conscious, and they sold over 86,000 acres of the surrounding land to the government to create the Pisgah National Forest. The Biltmore Company values the importance of forest preservation and ...
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
ASHEVILLE - More than a century after famed entrepreneur George Vanderbilt and his wife, Edith, marked the first Christmas at their then-new Biltmore House, the time-honored tradition has ...
This famed (and massive) estate is where you may run into the original owners, George and Edith Vanderbilt...even though George died in 1914 and Edith in 1958. George has been seen walking the ...