Lawyer
Centurion, 1903–1944
Born 30 January 1863 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 27 September 1944 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York
Proposed by S. Sidney Smith and William Barclay Parsons
Elected 7 February 1903 at age forty
Archivist’s Note: Nephew of Henry Delafield; cousin of Francis Delafield
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Lewis Livingston Delafield. [Born] 1863. Lawyer. For 50 years a leading estate counsel at the New York Bar; expert in setting up charitable trusts; adviser to charitable and educational institutions; active in civic reform and the Association of the Bar; hater of shams, impatient toward lesser breeds, his dignity and poise made him appear cold and aloof, though, as his friends knew, he was neither.
Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945