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Frederick Emanuel McCormick-Goodhart (January 5, 1854 – September 26, 1924) was a British-born barrister who later moved to the United States and is known for building Langley Park in Langley Park, Maryland.

Early life

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Frederick was born on January 5, 1854, at Langley Park, his family's Elizabethan style residence in Beckenham, Kent in England. He was a son of Elizabeth (née Settle) Goodhart and Charles Emanuel Goodhart, Esq.[1] who married in 1846.[2] His siblings included Emanuel Charles Goodhart,[3] George Imson Goodhart, and Henry Neve Goodhart.[4]

His paternal grandparents were Emmanuel Goodhart and Christiana Burford Goodhart. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Jacob Settle, a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Maria Caterina (née di Stella) Settle, who was born at Genoa, Italy.[5][6] Among his extended family was cousin, Captain Henry di Stella Burford-Hancock, the Chief Justice of Gibraltar.[7]

Career

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The McCormick-Goodhart residence, Langley Park.

In June 1883, Frederick first came to the United States regarding a Utah mine in which his father had an interest.[8] In 1885, they were living at Hadlow Castle in Tonbridge and Eaton Square in London.[9] After returning to England with his American wife, he practiced law there, then entered politics, running unsuccessfully for a Conservative seat to represent the Isle of Thanet in the House of Commons in 1900 and 1904 (as an Independent Conservative).[1]

He organized the Imperial Service College for the education of sons of officers of the British Army and Navy. For many years, he served as treasurer of the Church Army, a large charitable organizations in the British Isles founded by Wilson Carlile in 1882.[10] In 1899, at the request of his wife's father, he added McCormick to his surname through a "Royal Licence" and the family name officially became McCormick-Goodhart.[11] In 1913, the family home, Langley Park in Kent, was destroyed by fire. In 1920, Frederick and Henrietta decided to move to the United States and make their home there.[1]

Langley Park

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In 1921, the McCormick-Goodharts purchased a 540-acre (2.2 km2) estate northeast of Washington D.C. (and northwest of Bladensburg, Maryland) known as Langley Park and named after Goodhart's ancestral home in England, Langley Fields.[12] They moved into the former owners spacious Burgundy Farm house after they purchased the property in 1921, but in November 1922, this home was also destroyed by fire. In 1924, the McCormick-Goodhart family erected an 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2), 28-room Georgian revival mansion, designed by architect George Oakley Totten Jr., at a cost of $100,000 that remains a community landmark on 15th Ave.[13]

Personal life

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While visiting Chicago on his trip to the United States in 1883, he met Henrietta Laura "Nettie" McCormick.[1] They quickly became engaged and were married on November 14, 1883.[14] Henrietta was a daughter of Leander J. McCormick and Henrietta Maria (née Hamilton) McCormick.[15][16] Her younger brother was L. Hamilton McCormick, the art collector and inventor, and her paternal grandfather was Robert McCormick Jr. of the prominent McCormick family who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.[17] After their marriage, they returned to England together and became the parents of two sons who both attended Eton College and Oxford:[8]

  • Leander McCormick-Goodhart in 1884,[18] who married Janet Phillips, daughter of U.S. Representative Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr., in 1928.[19][20] He later married Australian-born Nita Emma Kloeden[21] in August 1952.[22]
  • Frederick Hamilton McCormick-Goodhart in 1887,[23] who married the actress Gladys Sylvani in 1912.[24] They divorced and he married Anstiss Hunt de Veau, a daughter of Frederic Clinton de Veau,[25] in 1929.[26]

In 1921, his wife published a memoir titled Hands across the sea.[27]

Goodhart died on September 26, 1924, less than a week after moving into his new home, Langley Park.[28] He was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Susan G. Pearl (October 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Langley Park / McCormick-Goodhart Mansion" (PDF). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) (80 pages including 30 photos and 2 maps)
  2. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  3. ^ Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom. 1913. p. 480. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  4. ^ Biolgraphical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. Cambridge University Press. 1898. p. 399. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  5. ^ Walford, Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894. p. 273. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  6. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1884. p. 602. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  7. ^ Linzee, John William (1917). The Lindeseie and Limesi Families of Great Britain: Including the Probates at Somerset House, London, England, of All the Spellings of the Name Lindeseie from 1300 to 1800. The Fort Hill Press. p. 814. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  8. ^ a b McCormick, Leander James (1896). Family Record and Biography. L.J. McCormick. ISBN 9780608317670. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  9. ^ Britain), Royal Geographical Society (Great (1903). Year-book and Record. Royal Geographical Society. p. 117. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Frederick E. McCormick-Goodhart" (PDF). The New York Times. 28 September 1924. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  11. ^ The London Gazette. Tho. Newcomb over against Baynards Castle in Thamse-street. 1899. p. 459. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  12. ^ Susan G. Pearl (October 2007). "Langley Park / McCormick-Goodhart Mansion" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Registration. National Park Service. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  13. ^ Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, "Inventory of Historic Sites" (Prince George's County), Entry 65-007, p. 36 (retrieved Sep 7, 2008).
  14. ^ "GOODHART--M'CORMICK". Chicago Tribune. 15 Nov 1883. p. 8. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  15. ^ "Leander J. McCormick Dead". Lexington gazette. Lexington, Virginia. February 28, 1900. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  16. ^ Leander McCormick-Goodhart; Henrietta Laura McCormick-Goodhart (1933). Genealogical tables of the descendants of John Hamilton: of "Locust Hill", Lexington, Virginia, born 1789—died 1825. Place of publication not identified.
  17. ^ The Supplement to Who's Who: A Current Biographical Reference Series. A. N. Marquis. 1944. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  18. ^ "L. GOODHART, McCORMICK KIN, DIES AT 81". Chicago Tribune. 17 Dec 1965. p. 45. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  19. ^ "MISS HELEN NEILSON TO WED T.B. RUDD; Member of Junior League, a Settlement Worker, Is toMarry Lawyer.MISS M. STURGES ENGAGEDSmith College Graduate Is to MarryTruxton Homans Parsons-- Other Betrothals. Sturges--Parsons. Weston--Weston. Jesser--Billingham. Woodhull--Sayward. Mulford--Throop. Butterick--Rogers. Phillips--McCormick-Goodhart. Edwards--Alliger" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 March 1928. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  20. ^ "MISS JANET PHILLIPS IS WED IN WASHINGTON; Becomes the Bride of Leander McCormick-Goodhart--British Ambassador and Staff Attend" (PDF). The New York Times. 29 April 1928. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  21. ^ "Welcome Bride". Chicago Tribune. 31 Oct 1952. p. 19. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  22. ^ Social Register, Summer. Social Register Association. 1970. p. 285. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  23. ^ "F. H. McCormick-Goodheart Dies in Washington, D.C." Chicago Tribune. December 13, 1938. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  24. ^ "$200,000 Asked for Love Balm -- Woman of Chicago "First" Family Sued By Her Daughter-In-Law". The Courier-Journal. 28 Apr 1925. p. 3. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  25. ^ of 1887, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1898). Secretary's Report: no. 4. Free Press Association. p. 51. Retrieved 6 May 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ "MISS E. FAHNESTOCK WEDS G.S. STEELE; Bishop Ernest M. Stires Performs the Ceremony in St.Thomas's Church.FATHER ESCORTS THE BRIDE Bridal Procession Passes ThroughFloral Lane of White and Green--Reception at Fahnestock Home. Ushers Lead Bridal Party. Among the Guests. McCormick-Goodhart--de Veau. Scandrett--Satterthwaite" (PDF). The New York Times. 4 June 1929. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  27. ^ Henrietta Laura McCormick-Goodhart (1921). Hands across the sea: Reminiscences of an Anglo-American marriage. R. R. Donnelley.
  28. ^ "Well-Known Englishman Dies on Maryland Estate -- F. E. McCormick-Goodhart Organized Imperial Service College". The Baltimore Sun. 28 Sep 1924. p. 10. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
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