Bronson Winthrop

Frederic Bronson Winthrop (December 22, 1863July 14, 1944) was an American philanthropist and lawyer with Winthrop & Stimson who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age. Early life Winthrop was born on December 22, 1863 in Paris, France where his family was living during the U.S. Civil War. His parents were Egerton Leigh Winthrop and Charlotte Troup (née Bronson) Winthrop. He had two older siblings, Egerton Leigh Winthrop, Jr., a lawyer and banker in New York, and Charlotte Bronson Winthrop. His father, also a prominent lawyer, was a former president of the Knickerbocker Club. His paternal grandparents were Benjamin Robert Winthrop and Elizabeth Ann Neilson (née Coles) Winthrop. Through his father, he was a descendant of Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley (both Massachusetts Bay Colony leaders), and through his great-grandmother, Judith (née Stuyvesant) Winthrop, he was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of New Netherland, and Robert Livingston the Elder, the 1st Lord of Livingston Manor. His maternal grandfather was Frederic Bronson and his uncle was Frederic Bronson Jr. His great-grandfather, Isaac Bronson, was a founder of the New York Life and Trust Company. Winthrop graduated with an A.B. degree and an A.M. degree from Trinity College, Cambridge in England in 1889. In 1891, he graduated with an LL.B. degree from Columbia University.