James Couper Lord (1881-1939)

He was a graduate of Groton School and Harvard. He was member in college and afterward of the Fly Club, to which President Roosevelt belonged. His other clubs were the Brook, Union, Racquet and Tennis, Downtown, Harvard and St. Nicholas Society in Manhattan and the National Golf Club In Southampton. He was a son of the late James Brown Lord and Mary Townsend Nicoll Lord and a nephew of De Lancey Nicoll, the lawyer. His mother, after the deaths of her first and second husbands, was married to the late Thomas Fortune Ryan, co-founder of British-American Tobacco Co.