- Katharine Mortimer
Katharine Mortimer, (1923 – 2003) was an American socialite.
She was one of the six children of the stockbroker and U.S. amateur court tennis champion Stanley Grafton Mortimer (a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,
John Jay ) and Kathleen Tilford. Through her mother she was the granddaughter ofHenry Morgan Tilford , who was a president ofStandard Oil Company . Her brother Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr. (1913-1999) married firstly socialiteBabe Paley and then Kathleen H. Harriman, a granddaughter of railroad tycoon E. H. Harriman.At her youth she was romantically linked to
Joseph Kennedy Jr. (the eldest brother ofJohn F. Kennedy ) but she declined to become more seriously involved with Joe Jr. because, she claimed, his family was too loud.Biddle married, as her first husband,
Oliver Cadwell Biddle , by whom she had one daughter, Christine Mortimer Biddle.In 1949 she married the tennis star and socialite
Francis Xavier Shields , the paternal grandfather of actressBrooke Shields . With Shields she had two sons,Alston Shields andWilliam Xavier Orin Hunt Shields , and one daughter,Katharine Shields .She married, as her third husband, Richard Gillespie Blaine (died 1972), by whom she had one son,
Walker Blaine .
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