Ralph Hornblower III
Ray Hornblower | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ralph Hornblower III March 17, 1948 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University University of Virginia Law School |
| Spouses | |
| Parent(s) | Ralph Hornblower Jr. Priscilla Blumer |
| Relatives | Henry Hornblower (great-grandfather) Ralph Hornblower (grandfather) |
Ralph "Ray" Hornblower III (born March 17, 1948) is an American opera singer and chairman of Hornblower & Company, LLC, an investment firm specializing in early stage companies in the biomedical, alternative energy, health care, and transportation/logistics sectors.[1]
Early life
[edit]Hornblower was born on March 17, 1948. He was the son of Ralph Hornblower Jr. and Priscilla (née Blumer) Hornblower.[2] He is the great-grandson of Henry Hornblower, the founder of Hornblower & Weeks. His grandfather and father were in their turn partners in that firm. Although the present firm of Hornblower & Company is not a descendant firm, the right to the name Hornblower passed, by the original Hornblower & Weeks partnership agreement, to Ralph Hornblower, thence to Ralph, Jr., and to Ralph III.[1]
Hornblower graduated in 1970 from Harvard where he was elected to the Owl Club. Hornblower was a left halfback for the Crimson football team, and earned designation as an All-Ivy League second team member in 1968. Hornblower played in the Harvard wins 29-29 contest versus Yale.[3] Hornblower obtained a law degree in 1974 from the University of Virginia Law School.
Career
[edit]Following his graduation from law school, Hornblower joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1974, first working as a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department's Civil Rights Division. Subsequently, in the post-Watergate period under Attorneys General Edward Levi and Griffin Bell, he was assigned to oversee all matters of ethics and professional responsibility in the Justice Department.[1]
Opera singer
[edit]Leaving the Justice Department in 1980, and after spending one year in private practice, Hornblower began a second career as a professional concert and opera singer by spending six years in Paris and while overseas was house tenor for the Bulgarian National Opera.[4] As a tenor, he performed principal roles in Turandot and Carmen at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa, California and at opera festivals in Aix-en-Provence, France, and Buxton, England.[5][6]
Hornblower was a member of the board of overseers of Plimoth Plantation, the living history museum in Plymouth, Mass., that was founded by his uncle, Henry Hornblower II.
Personal life
[edit]Between 1969 and 2000, Hornblower was married to Margot Roosevelt (b. 1950), great-granddaughter of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt.[2] They divorced in 2000,[7] and had two sons.[8] In 2004, he married Cynthia Morgan Edmunds, executive editor of Bride's magazine. They have one daughter.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hornblower & Company, "The Hornblower History"
- ^ a b "Margot Roosevelt is Wed in Capital". The New York Times. December 21, 1969.
- ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ [articles.latimes.com/1996-10-04/sports/sp-52208_1_ray-hornblower
- ^ "Cynthia Edmunds, Ralph Hornblower III", The New York Times (November 7, 2004)
- ^ The New York Times "Emily Allen, Samuel Hornblower" (June 13, 2009)
- ^ "Cynthia Edmunds, Ralph Hornblower III". The New York Times. November 7, 2004. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
- ^ "Margot Roosevelt". Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.