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Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; March 2, 1877 – December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the American Vanderbilt family. Her first marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages ...
Wintrop Rutherfurd was the son of the New York social figure Winthrop Chandler Rutherfurd (1862-1944) and Alice Morton Rutherfurd (1879-1917). His father, Winthrop Chandler was the son of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892) a known astronomer and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant Rutherfurd (?-1890).
She met Winthrop Rutherfurd for a bicycle ride along with her mother and some other friends in Riverside Park in Manhattan, but when they drew back from the rest of the crowd, Winthrop quickly and clandestinely proposed to Consuelo—and she accepted. If it sounds like the lovers were in a hurry, it’s because they were.
His wife, Alice Morton Rutherfurd died suddenly on June 19, 1917 from an appendicitis, at the age of 38. She was buried in the Rutherfurd family plot, Tranquility Cemetery, New Jersey near their Allamuchy estate. Winthrop, a New York society figure, married his second wife, Lucy Mercer in February 1920. Winthrop's son Lewis Morton Rutherfurd ...
Winthrop and Alice Rutherfurd’s advantage was that their setting of great natural beauty had been in the Rutherfurd family for generations. The Rutherfurd presence in this area of New Jersey dates back to the mid-eighteenth century with the marriage of Walter Rutherfurd, recently arrived from Scotland to fight in the French and Indian War, to Catherine Alexander Parker in 1758.
At the time Consuelo was deeply in love with Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy playboy lawyer, a fact she did not attempt to hide from Sunny. "I am sure that we shall both do our best to make the other happy, but there is something you must believe," Consuelo told Sunny on their wedding night. "Our marriage was my mother's idea, not mine.
Winthrop Rutherfurd was the son of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892)and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant (1820-1890) a descendant of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant. His mother, Margaret was the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant and Helena Rutherfurd Stuyvesant-(Lewis Morris Rutherfurd's aunt).His father Lewis...
