Robert Wilson Goelet

Robert Wilson Goelet (January 9, 1880 – February 6, 1966) was an American social leader, banker, and real estate developer who built Glenmere mansion. Early life Goelet was born in 1880. He was the son of Mary Wilson Goelet (1855–1929), a leader of New York and Newport society, and Ogden Goelet (1846–1897), a prominent heir and landlord in New York City who was the great-grandson of Peter Goelet, who begat the Goelet wealth by becoming one of the largest landowners in New York, which reportedly was 55 acres "stretching along the East side from Union Square to 48th Street." His only sibling was his older sister, Mary Goelet, who married Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903. Through his sister, he was the maternal uncle of George Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of Roxburghe (1913–1974). Through his mother, he was a nephew of Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr., Marshall Orme Wilson, Belle Wilson (the wife of British Ambassador Sir Michael Henry Herbert), and Grace Wilson (the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III). Through his father, he was a nephew of Robert Goelet, and a first cousin of Robert Walton Goelet. Goelet attended Harvard University, graduating in 1902, at which time he received one million dollars (equivalent to approximately $ in dollars) from his father's estate.