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There are Long Wharf, Hillhouse High, Arts and Letters, and Quadrangle, all of which stand for New Haven and Yale, from which he graduated in 1929 and to which he has given more than $40 million in cash. Then there are Christopher Wren, Debrett, King's Parade, Land's End, Tower of London. They represent England and the dignified 18th century values treasured most by Mellon, who was made an honorary Knight of the British Empire in 1974. Literature, another Mellon love, gallops as Knight's Tale, Winter's Tale, Canterbury Tale and Love for Love...
Jimmy's rich roots have been unearthed by Debrett's, the famed English tracers of lineage. Pursuing genealogical research for another, undisclosed American Carter, Debrett's has tracked Jimmy's forebears back to 1361 and King's Langley, a quaint Hertfordshire village that is now a commuter suburb, 18 miles north of London. The prospering yeoman family at one time owned Jefferies farm in nearby Chipperfield (the Chip Carter connection?), and the King's Langley church has a brass plaque in memory of Ancestor John Carter, departed this world in 1588. Another Carter, also...
...Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker, when "wealth was measured by the number of fine volumes you had." King was also a banker...
Hugh Peskett, Genealogist to Debrett...
Congratulations on your excellent article "White Roots." We at Debrett's Peerage Ancestry are pleased to see that a person is interested to find that an ancestor got into trouble (like President Carter's). Roots go in many directions. H.B. Brooks-Baker, Managing Director Debrett's Peerage Ltd. London