Raymond Belmont II

Raymond Belmont II (May 31, 1888 – April 5, 1934) was a champion polo player.

Early life Belmont was born on May 31, 1888, in Nassau County, New York. He was one of three sons born to financier August Belmont Jr. (1853–1924) and, his first wife, Elizabeth "Bessie" Hamilton (née Morgan) Belmont (1862–1898).

Belmont graduated from Harvard University in 1910.

Personal life Belmont was married three times. His first marriage was in 1912 to Ethel Helen Linder, who was known by her stage name, Ethel Lorraine. They divorced in 1916 and his second marriage took place on September 20, 1916, he was married to Carolyn Brown Hulbert (1892–1970) in Middleburg, Virginia. Before their divorce, they were the parents of one daughter:

Elizabeth Hurlbert "Bettina" Belmont (1919–1993), who married Newell Jube "Buddy" Ward Jr. in 1939. Ward, a gentleman-farmer, was a great-grandson of the founder of Prudential Insurance.

Raymond and Carolyn divorced in Reno in August 1926 and she remarried to Arthur John White, with whom she had a son, Arthur Ridgely White. In September 1926, Belmont married Mrs. Marie Muurling Maddux.

After an illness of several days, Belmont died of pneumonia at his home, known as Belray in Middleburg, near Leesburg, Virginia, on April 5, 1934.