Find A Grave - Philanthropists

Addenbrooke, John b. 1680 d. June 6, 1719
Medical Pioneer. He founder of the famous Cambridge, England hospital that still bears his name.
St Catherines College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Allen, Philip b. September 1, 1785 d. December 16, 1865
US Senator/Rhode Island Governor. Born on a Thursday to prominent merchant Zachariah Allen and his 3rd wife Ann Crawford. He was the oldest son and forth child born to Zachariah. He was the older brother of Inventor/Industrialist Zachariah Allen and uncle to Rhode Island Governor/Rebellion Leader Thomas Wilson Dorr. His education ranged from private tutors and the Taunton Academy to the Robert Rogers School of Newport. In 1803 he graduated from Rhode Island College, which would, in the next...[Read More] (Bio by: Matthew Fatale)
North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Arents, Grace Evelyn b. 1848 d. June 20, 1926
Philanthropist. She was the niece of wealthy tobacco manufacturer and developer Lewis Ginter and inherited much of his fortune. She personally financed construction of Richmond's Saint Andrew's Church in 1903 and the first free-circulating library in Richmond in 1899. She financed the tuition-free Saint Andrew's school in 1901 and built the first subsidized housing units in Richmond. Her obituary in the Richmond "News Leader" stated that it would be impossible to list all of the "libraries...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Astor, Brooke b. March 30, 1902 d. August 13, 2007
Philanthropist. Brooke Astor was born in New Hampshire and raised in Waikiki, Panama, Peking, and Mexico. Her father was John Henry Russell Jr., a military officer who eventually became Commandant of the US Marine Corps. She dropped out of high school in 1919 to marry her first serious boyfriend, J. Dryden Kuser, when she was 17. He was descended from founders of South Jersey Gas and Electric and the Prudential Life Insurance Company, but he drank heavily, beat her, cheated on her, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Andrew A. Caruso)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 88, row 2
Astor, Vincent b. November 15, 1891 d. February 3, 1959
Financier, Businessman, Philanthropist. The son of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, he entered Harvard only to leave after the death of his father in the sinking of the "RMS Titanic"'. He was the first Astor, in several generations, to take active control of the family investmentsm with interests in automobiles, shipping and air transportation, as well as the ancestral involvement in Manhattan real estate. A Commodore of The New York Yacht Club, his yacht, "Nourmahal", was utilized for geographical...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Bruce)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 88, row 2
Atkins, Mary McAfee b. October 22, 1836 d. October 13, 1911
Philanthropist. She was a former school teacher, whose husband left her $250,000 he had made in real estate when he died. Twenty-five years later when she died, it had grown to more than a million dollars. Of that amount, she left $350,000 to Kansas City for the establishment of an art museum. For 16 years the city pondered how to use it in accordance with her will. By 1927 her gift had more than doubled in value. Then William Rockhill Nelson died leaving his wealth for the purchase of works of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill Walker)
Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA
Averoff, George b. 1815 d. 1899
Business Magnate, Philanthropist. Born in Metsovo in the North of Greece, near to the border with Albania. When he was a young man, he moved to Alexandria in Egypt. There he made his fortune in trade, and founded the High School and the Girls' Institute. Back in Greece, he was the founder of the Military Academy, the Juvenile Prisons, and the Athens Polytechnic. In honour of his birthplace, the official name of the latter is the National Metsovian Polytechnic. In 1896, when Baron Pierre de...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
First Cemetery, Athens, Attiki, Greece
Baillie, George d. February 8, 1873
Founder of Baillie's Institution, a philanthropic and charitable organisation still in existence. (Bio by: David Conway)
Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland
Barnett, Samuel Augustus b. February 8, 1844 d. June 17, 1913
English clergyman, philanthropist, and social worker. After ordination he went to the notorious East End of London where he joined in the attack upon the unsanitary and terrible housing conditions there. He founded the universities' settlement (places where richer students could live alongside, learn about and contribute to the welfare of much poorer people), Toynbee Hall. The settlement was visited in 1888 by American reformer Jane Addams, who returned to the USA inspired to create similar...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Plot: South nave aisle, south wall
Barney, Samuel Stebbins b. January 31, 1846 d. December 31, 1919
U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Wisconsin's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1895 to 1903. Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, serving in 1906.
Union Cemetery, West Bend, Washington County, Wisconsin, USA
Beaufort, Margaret b. May 31, 1443 d. June 29, 1509
English Aristocracy. Born the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, the son of John, Earl of Somerset who was himself the son of John of Gaunt by his mistress, Catherine Swynford; a bloodline that would be the basis of the family's tenuous claim to the English throne. While still a child, she was contracted to marry John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, but the contract was later dissolved. At the age of about fourteen, she married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond. They had one child, Henry...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Greater London, England
Plot: Chapel of Henry VII
Beer (nee Wulff), Amalia b. 1767 d. 1854
Mother of the composer Meyerbeer (qv). Duaghter of a welathy banker, she was renowned for her artistic soirees, which were attended by the Prusssian aristocracy and royalty. She was decorated by the Prussian King for her assistance to the wounded during the Napoleonic Wars. (Bio by: David Conway)
J�discher Friedhof Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Birkbeck, George b. 1776 d. 1841
Doctor, philanthropist, educationalist and founder of the Mechanics' Institutions; the London Institute became Birkbeck College.
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Bishop, Bernice Pauahi b. December 19, 1831 d. October 16, 1884
Philanthropist. Founded the Bishop Museum preserving Hawaiian culture. Last descendant of King Kamehameha the Great, declined the succession when it was suggested by King Kamehameha IV. Wife of Charles Reed Bishop.
Royal Mausoleum, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA
Bliss, Br. Henry Edward Ernest Victor 'Baron Bliss' b. February 16, 1869 d. March 9, 1926
The national benefactor of Belize, formally known as British Honduras, known as Baron Bliss he never set foot in the country. Born Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss in Buckinghamshire with a family linaege that went back to Edward Bliss, an Englishman who gained the Portugese title Baron Barreto in the 1820's. The English Barons Barreto considered that, being Bliss's too, they could legitimately use the happy name Baron Bliss. Though paralyzed from the waist down from 1911, Baron Henry...[Read More] (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Fort George Memorial Lighthouse, Fort George, Belize District, Belize
Bonard, Louis b. 1809 d. February 20, 1871
American Folk Figure. A native of France, he lived there until coming to the United States in 1851, though little is known about his life there. From that time until his death, he purposely lived in squalor and poor conditions in a tiny, decrepit apartment, seeing very few people, and gaining a reputation for being reclusively eccentric. Just before his death he contacted Henry Bergh (who he never met) and his American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and bequeathed to them a...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section N, Lot 19935
Bourgeois, Sir. Peter Francis b. November, 1753 d. January 8, 1811
Connoisseur and philanthropist. He left his magnificent art collection (which was originally acquired on behalf of the King of Poland) to Dulwich College, which comissioned a special gallery at Dulwich, designed by the incomparable Sir John Soane, to house it. Soane included a mausoleum for Sir Francis Bourgeois in the building, which is still open to the public.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, Greater London, England
Brophy, John Charles b. October 8, 1901 d. December 26, 1976
US Congressman. He was elected to represent Wisconsin's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1947 to 1949.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Brown, James Graham b. August 18, 1881 d. March 30, 1969
Businessman, Philanthropist. He created the James Graham Brown Foundation, which has donated millions of dollars to various charitable, educational and civic organizations, including the Louisville Zoo and the Kentucky Derby Museum. He developed the now Brown Hilton Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky in the 1920s where the "Hot Brown" sandwich was created. The name sake to the James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, his Foundation is still active today. (Bio by: Mike Maloney)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Burdett-Coutts, Baroness. Angela Georgina b. April 24, 1814 d. December 30, 1906
Philanthropist. Heiress and friend of Charles Dickens. Gave her fortune to assist the poor of England and Ireland, and to found churches. (Bio by: David Conway)
Cause of death: Bronchitis
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Greater London, England
Plot: Nave

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