Arthur Scott Burden

Arthur Scott Burden (August 11, 1879 – June 15, 1921) Among his relatives was uncle William Fletcher Burden, uncle-in-law Gen. Irvin McDowell, and uncle I. Townsend Burden, who was prominent in New York society and was a member of the infamous 400 of New York Society, as dictated by Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister and published in The New York Times on February 16, 1892.

Burden graduated from Harvard University with a S.B. in 1903.

Career Following his graduation from Harvard, Burden was connected with the Iron Works which his father and grandfather had been president of. Alfred, who died aboard the in 1915, and Reginald (father of Gloria Vanderbilt), who died from cirrhosis due to alcoholism in 1925.

Personal life On June 11, 1906, he was married to the Hon. Cynthia Burke Roche (1884–1966), the daughter of James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy, an Irish peer who was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, and Frances Ellen née Work, an American heiress and socialite. Among her siblings was brother Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. Together, they were the parents of a daughter:

Eileen Burden (1910–1970), who married investment banker Walter Maynard (1906–1971), a son of Walter E. Maynard, in 1932. They later divorced and in 1963, she married Thomas Robins (1897–1977). Robins was the son of Thomas Robins, inventor of the conveyor belt.

In late 1913, Burden fell twice from his horse and sustained injuries that caused him to be placed under constant care. As a result, in May 1921, his brother James filed a petition while his sister-in-law, Cynthia Roche's, was away in London, requesting that he be declared incompetent. Later that month, a sheriff's jury found Burden to be "incompetent to care for his person and property." Arthur, however, died shortly thereafter, at a branch of the New York Hospital in White Plains, New York, from pneumonia on June 15, 1921. He left his entire estate to his widow. Coincidentally, ten years later in 1931, his brother James was also injured in a fall, and died the following year of an embolism as a consequence of the fall. and later, the newspaper publisher Edwin Fairman Russell. Russell was previously married to Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough.

Descendants Through his daughter Eileen, he was the grandfather of Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad. She married Nicholas Platt (b. 1936), a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines. They are the parents of New York Magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt, actor Oliver Platt (b. 1960), and Nicholas Platt, Jr.