Bayard Schieffelin

Bayard Schieffelin was the third son of William Jay Schieffelin and Maria Louise Shepard Schieffelin. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in the house on 5 East 66th Street (the building is owned by the Lotos Club since 1947).[1]

Through his paternal ancestors Bayard Schieffelin was a descendant of John Jay, and through his maternal ancestors he was a member of the Vanderbilt family. His first name, Bayard, reminds of John Jay’s grandma Anna Maria Bayard Jay. The Bayard family were Huguenots who had fled from France, first to the Netherlands, and then to New York. The Bayards and Jays fled their oppression as Protestants in France, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by King Louis XIV in 1685.[1][2]

Bayard Schieffelin married Virginia Langdon Loomis from New York in 1934. The couple had four children.[1]

Virginia Langdon Loomis was the daughter of Edward Eugene Loomis and Julia Olivia Langdon Loomis.[1]

Bayard Schieffelin graduated from Groton School and from Yale University in 1926.[1]

From 1939, Bayard worked on the finance board of Schieffelin & Co in Manhattan.[1]

During World War II he worked at the War Department in Washington, DC, and received the Legion of Merit award.[1][3]

• Co-sponsor of the Langdon Schieffelin Fund for Bryn Mawr College in 1930[1]
• Director of the New York Public Library from 1950 to 1968[1][3]
• Member of the Century Association (elected 1952)[4]
• Trustee Vice President of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey[1][5]