Lawrence Kip

Lawrence Kip (September 17, 1836 – November 17, 1899) Kip's father was a prominent minister who served at Grace Church before becoming the Episcopal Bishop of California until his death in 1893.

His paternal grandparents were Leonard Kip and Maria (née Ingraham) Kip and his uncle was author Leonard Kip.

Kip attended the Churchill Military Academy at Sing Sing,

In 1861, at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, he was Adjutant of the Third Artillery. Shortly thereafter, he resigned to join the staff of General Edwin Vose Sumner's as senior aide-de-camp, achieving the rank of Major. He was a part of the Army of the Potomac which saw action in the Battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg (all of which took place in 1862), and Mine Run which lasted from November 1863 until December 1863. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

Kip, who was deeply interested in horse breeding and racing, served as president of the Coney Island Jockey Club, the first turf racecourse in the United States, president of the Suburban Riding and Driving Club, and vice-president of the National Show Horse Association. He was also a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Club, and the Tuxedo Club. the daughter of Lorillard Tobacco Company heir Pierre Lorillard III.

Her grandfather, Pierre Lorillard II, was a tobacco manufacturer and real estate tycoon, for whom the term "millionaire" was first used in America for his father's obituary in 1843. Eva was the sister of Pierre Lorillard IV; Catherine Lorillard Kernochan, who married James Powell Kernochan; Jacob Lorillard; Mary Lorillard Barbey; George Lyndes Lorillard; and Louis Lasher Lorillard, who married Katherine Livingston Beeckman, sister of Governor Robert Livingston Beeckman.

Together, Eva and Lawrence were the parents of:

Eva Maria Kip (1868–1870), who died young. who married Richard Stephen McCreery (1866–1938), son of Andrew McCreery, on April 18, 1894. they divorced in 1904, and she remarried to the Hon. Henry Thomas Coventry (1868-1934), son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, on December 3, 1907. His brother, the Hon. Charles Coventry, was also married to an American, Lily Whitehouse, the sister of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse. Lorillard Kip (1872–1896), who died unmarried of typhoid fever, aged 25.

Kip died on November 17, 1899, at his residence, 452 Fifth Avenue, in New York City after having been ill for nearly three weeks from "stomach trouble." His funeral was held Grace Church in New York and he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. In The New York Times write up of his funeral, it stated "There were society men, old and young; horsemen of more or less prominence, and roadhouse keepers. The number of women present was not especially large." and Lorillard Kip McCreery (d. 1926) from her first marriage, and Victor Henry Coventry (1909–1986), named after Henry's brother-in-law, Prince Victor Duleep Singh, and Cecil George Coventry (1911–1912), who died young, from her second marriage.

Published works Army Life on the Pacific; A Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur dÁlenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858, Redfield, Bedford, Massachusetts, (1859).