Henry Lane Eno
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Montacute House
Montacute House is a late Elizabethan country house situated in the South Somerset village of Montacute. This house is a textbook example of English architecture during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical; this has resulted in Montacute being regarded as...
, Somerset, on September 28, 1928. A member of the Eno real estate and banking family, he was the son of Henry Clay Eno and his wife Cornelia, the daughter of George W. Lane of New York.
Eno, a member of the circle of Mary Seney Sheldon
Mary Seney Sheldon
Mary R. Seney Sheldon was the first female president of the New York Philharmonic. She is credited with reorganizing the orchestra into a modern institution in 1909. One of her major contributions was the hiring of Gustav Mahler....
, built the Fifth Avenue Building on the site of his grandfather's Fifth Avenue Hotel
Fifth Avenue Hotel
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facing Madison Square; an unpaid researcher at Princeton University
Princeton University
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with the courtesy title of "Professor", he was better known as a psychologist, author and poet.
Having graduated from Yale College
Yale University
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in 1894, and gaining an L.L.B. from Columbia (though he never practiced), in 1898 he married his first wife Edith Marie Labouisse. On the death of his father in 1914, Enos inherited a fortune estimated at over $15,000,000; this was considerably increased when in 1919, he successfully contested the $10 million will of his unmarried uncle, Amos F. Eno, a son of the builder and owner of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Fifth Avenue Hotel
The Fifth Avenue Hotel was a former luxury hotel located at 200 Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York from 1859 to 1908. It occupied the full Fifth Avenue frontage between 23rd Street and 24th Street, at the southwest corner of Madison Square in the borough of Manhattan.- Site and construction...
, for decades New York's grandest and most fashionable, the engine of the Eno fortune, originally founded in textile merchandising; Amos Eno was a founder of the Second National Bank of New York. The nephew claimed he needed the money for the education of his children, Amos and Alice.
Eno was the principal donor of Princeton's Eno Hall. Completed in 1924, it was described at the time as "The first laboratory in this country, if not in the world, dedicated solely to the teaching and investigation of scientific psychology."
Eno's wife died in February 1922 at Princeton; in September 1923, he remarried in England, and settled there with his much younger English wife, Flora Napier. The couple rented one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, Montacute House in Somerset. His daughter, Juliet (later Princess Alexei Melikoff) was born there in 1925. Eno's widow Flora married, on August 1, 1931, (Ernest) Rupert Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, son of the 1st Baron Redesdale
John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale PC, KC, FRS , known as Sir John Mitford between 1793 and 1802, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the House of Commons between 1801 and 1802 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1802 and 1806.-Background:Born in London, Mitford was the...
, and became the mother of the 5th Baron Redesdale. She died on December 20, 1981.
Works by Henry Lane Eno
- Activism, an essay in philosophy (1920)
- The Baglioni, a verse play in five acts (1905).
- The Wanderer, an extended poem (1921)
See also
- Amos Eno HouseAmos Eno HouseThe Amos Eno House is a historic home in Simsbury, Connecticut. It is also known as the 1820 House.-Prior to Amos Eno:The house was built in 1822 by Elisha Phelps, who was given the land by his father, Noah. Noah Phelps was a graduate of Yale University, a lawyer and a judge. The first floor...