Ralph Hornblower III

Ralph "Ray" Hornblower III (born March 17, 1948) is an American opera singer and chairman of Hornblower & Company, LLC, an investment firm specializing in early stage companies in the biomedical, alternative energy, health care, and transportation/logistics sectors.

Early life Hornblower was born on March 17, 1948. He was the son of Ralph Hornblower Jr. and Priscilla (née Blumer) Hornblower. Hornblower obtained a Juris Doctor degree in 1974 from the University of Virginia Law School.

Career Following his graduation from law school, Hornblower joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1974, first working as a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department's Civil Rights Division. Subsequently, in the post-Watergate period under Attorneys General Edward Levi and Griffin Bell, he was assigned to oversee all matters of ethics and professional responsibility in the Justice Department. As a tenor, he performed principal roles in Turandot and Carmen at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa, California and at opera festivals in Aix-en-Provence, France, and Buxton, England.

Hornblower was a member of the board of overseers of Plimoth Plantation, the living history museum in Plymouth, Mass., that was founded by his uncle, Henry Hornblower II.

Personal life Between 1969 and 2000, Hornblower was married to Margot Roosevelt (b. 1950), great-granddaughter of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt. They divorced in 2000, and had two sons. In 2004, he married Cynthia Morgan Edmunds, executive editor of Bride's magazine. They have one daughter.