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Bronson Winthrop

Full Name: Frederic Bronson Winthrop

Lawyer

Centurion, 1908–1944

Proposed by
Joseph H. Choate and Lewis A. Stimson
born December 22, 1863
Paris, France
died July 14, 1944
Syosset, New York
elected February 1, 1908
Age forty-four
buried Saint Marks Church-in-the-Bowery Churchyard,
Manhattan, New York
Member portrait of Bronson Winthrop

Archivist’s Notes

Son of Egerton L. Winthrop; grandson of Benjamin R. Winthrop

Century Memorial

Bronson Winthrop. [Born] 1863. Lawyer. Descendant of John Winthrop, who was governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629; graduate of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, with a brilliant record in each; called by his partner, Elihu Root, “the finest legal mind of his generation”; at the end of his career, senior partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts, Centurions all; long active in the charities of the city; gentleman of an older school with a courtesy that came from the heart.

Geoffrey Parsons, Secretary
Annual Meeting Necrology, 11 January 1945

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