George Dupont Pratt

George Dupont Pratt (August 16, 1869 – January 20, 1935) was an American conservationist, philanthropist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of ancient antiquities.

Early life Pratt was born on August 16, 1869, and raised in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York, the third son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and his wife Mary Helen Richardson.

He was brother to Frederic B. Pratt, Herbert L. Pratt, John Teele Pratt and Harold I. Pratt; and half-brother to Charles Millard Pratt.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1893, and "excelled as an athlete".

As an early member of the Camp-Fire Club he became interested in conservation and for 25 years served on its committee on conservation. He was Conservation Commissioner of New York from 1915 to 1921.

Heritage

His house "Killenworth" at Glen Cove was one of the larger Pratt family mansions, built in 1913 in a Tudor style, with 39 panelled rooms, thirteen bathrooms, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was designed by Trowbridge and Ackerman. By the 1950s it was purchased by the then Soviet Union to serve as the retreat for the Soviet delegation to the United Nations.

Personal life In 1897, Pratt married Helen Deming Sherman Pratt (1869-1923), the daughter of John Taylor Sherman, a Brooklyn cotton merchant,

In 1926, Pratt married Vera Hale, daughter of William Amherst Hale, a banker of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

Pratt died at home in Glen Cove on January 20, 1935.