Robert Amory (1885-1972)

He graduated from Harvard in 1906 and studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went into textile (principally cotton) manufacturing in which his grandfather had been an important figure. He became President of the Nashua Manufacturing Company and a partner in Amory, Browne, Commission Merchants of Boston. He was for a long time Vice-President of Spring Mills Inc. and was elected as President of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers. He was a racing sailor and a member of the Cruising Club of America. He won the Puritan Cup with his Q-Sloop "Leonore" (named for his wife) in the Marblehead Races in the 1930s. He was described as, "a broad-minded, amiable man" who humorously denied that he was the inspiration for his son's book. "The Proper Bostonians". In 1910, he married Leonore, daughter of the noted Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb and had five children including author Cleveland Amory and Robert Amory Jr., Deputy-Director of the C.I.A. After his wife died he lived at the Somerset Club in Boston and died at Manchester, Massachusetts.