Hugh Dudley Auchincloss

Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. (July 8, 1858 – April 21, 1913) was an American merchant and businessman who was prominent in New York society.

Early life Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. was born on July 8, 1858, at his father's summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a younger son of John Auchincloss (1810–1876) and Elizabeth ( Buck) Auchincloss (1816–1902). Among his seven siblings were Sarah Ann Auchincloss (wife of Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet), William Stuart Auchincloss, Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (who married Maria LaGrange Sloan), Frederic Lawton Auchincloss, and railroad executive John Winthrop Auchincloss (who married Joanna Hone Russell). His father was the senior member of John & Hugh Auchincloss.

His paternal grandparents were Ann Anthony ( Stuart) Auchincloss and Hugh Auchincloss, who emigrated from Paisley, Scotland in 1801 and became a merchant in 1805. His mother, a descendant of Massachusetts Bay Colony Gov. Thomas Dudley, After preparing for college at the Collegiate Institute of Morris W. Lyon, They divorced in 1929, and she married Norman Blitz in 1930. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (1897–1976), who married Maria Nikolayevna de Chrapovitsky (1899–1990) in 1925. They divorced in 1932, and he married Nina S. Gore (1903–1978) in 1935. They too divorced in 1941 and he married Janet Lee Bouvier (1907–1989), mother of Lee Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in 1942. Annie Burr Auchincloss (1902–1959), who married Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895–1979) in 1928.

Auchincloss died at 33 East 67th Street, his home in Manhattan on April 21, 1913, and was buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield, Connecticut. His widow died in 1942. His widow's $5,000,000 estate was divided among their three children.

Descendants Through his son Hugh, he was a grandfather of Nina Gore Auchincloss (b. 1937) and Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985).