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Pilgrims Society
Membership list
Note
beforehand: Since this article first
appeared knowledge about this group has greatly expanded. Therefore I suggest
you also take a look at the
introduction
page and
appendix B
where the origins of this group and its influence is discussed in more detail.
In
past front page articles
more information can be found on the templar, Rosicrucian, and Masonic
influences within this group. I also suggest you take a look at
this chart, which has been put together by looking at the individual
biographies of the Pilgrims Society members.
Even today it's members consist of the
wealthiest businessman and the most influential politicians. It was erected over
a century ago and meets at least 2 or 3 times a year. Still, 99% of the world
has never heard of it. We're talking about the Pilgrims Society. An aristocratic
Anglo-American dining club who's members keep themselves informed by inviting
politicians to make a speech. The primary purpose of this club is to keep the
ties between the United States and Britain as strong as possible. The official
reason was, and is, that the forefathers of most Americans from the Virginia and
New York area emigrated from the British Isles, therefore they share a common
heritage. They are blood brothers so to speak. Of course, the obvious reason was
to form an unofficial alliance with the United States to improve the strained
relations and to vastly increase the powers of the dwindling British empire. The
heart of the British empire and the later British Commonwealth became the
Pilgrims Society, it's philosophies dominated by the executives of the upcoming
mega corporations, largely located in the City of London and the city of New
York.
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The London chapter of the Pilgrims
Society was established on July 11, 1902, followed by a New York chapter on
January 13, 1903. It's patron is the British monarch, who has plenty of
representatives attending the meetings. A member of the Royal family usually
attends the London diners. As
you'll find out by looking at the membership list, the Pilgrims Society has
clearly fused together the business centers of New York and London, together
with a large portion of the political centers of both nations. Ninety
percent of the American members are top-level bankers and businessmen from
New York city. |
Only a couple of Pilgrims own or chair
companies with headquarters in Boston or Philadelphia. Businesses that have
their headquarters in any other location than this small part of the north-east
corner of the United States don't seem to be represented at all (do keep in mind
that recent data is sketchy). Relatively few government officials from
Washington are recruited into the Pilgrims Society. Officials from outside the
UK or US visit the club occasionally. In the past they usually came from
countries incorporated within the British Empire or the Commonwealth, most
notably Canada and Australia.
A mistake usually made when people
refer to this society, is when they call it the 'Pilgrim Society', because this
name hasn't been used that often. The most often used name is the 'Pilgrims
Society', sometimes spelled as 'Pilgrim's Society'. You might think this isn't
such a big deal, but when you search the internet or some archives for the
'Pilgrim Society', you will hardly find any official sources, simply because
they all refer to the 'Pilgrims Society'. The name 'Pilgrims Society' is also
unique, so you won't confuse it with this
one. Also try
searching on 'The Pilgrims' or more specifically, the 'Pilgrims of the United
States' and the 'Pilgrims of the United Kingdom'/'Pilgrims of Great Britain'.
The club is secret. It might be one of
those 'open-secrets', but it's secret nonetheless. If it wasn't, we would have
read about it in the history books, we would know all the details of the
meetings, and we would have membership lists in the public domain. It is
possible to find quite a bit of information in regular newspaper archives, but
you really have to look for it. It takes forever to piece the story together.
For example, The Scotsman made numerous references to it in the first half of
the century (archives are only available up to 1950 atm). Time Magazine made
them much less, but still referred to the club once every few years. After 1958,
Time only mentioned the club 2 or 3 times, even though meetings continued as
usual. Other newspapers in the U.S., like the New York Times and the Washington
Post have referred the Pilgrims at times. The Wall Street Journal on the other
hand never mentioned a whole lot about this dining club at any time in the past
century. The Times of London mentioned the society a couple of times in the past
10 years, even though, as all the other papers, it didn't give many details
about who's attending. Most other newspapers, including the Scotsman, New York
Post, Washington Times, or even the Guardian, seem to have been (almost)
completely silent about the Pilgrims in the last 5 to 7 years (that's how far
the digital archives go back). In other countries it's virtually impossible to
get any information on the Pilgrims. Not one large Dutch newspaper has mentioned
the name in the past 20 years. References in German or French newspapers are
just as uncommon. One thing you actually càn find, is different speeches on
official websites; One at NATO, another one at the State Department, and yet
another one from 1999 on the MoD website. They all deal with one little speech
and when you ask for some background information you won't get any replies. And
that's strange. Maybe it's done to give people the impression there's nothing
unusual about the club. Indeed, looking at the speeches there certainly isn't.
All they do is talk about regular pro-NATO politics and kiss up to their
"brothers" on the other side of the ocean. Two recent examples:
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January 2002, Lord Robertson, 'NATO
after September 11' |
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November 2002, Richard Boucher on
Foreign policy, the EU, and NATO |
You can find other speeches in the
references at the bottom of this article. Of course, it's probably not because
of the speeches that the Pilgrims Society keeps itself out of the public eye.
More likely it's because of who's being informed and for what purpose. Also,
it's obvious that members discuss a lot of other business among themselves.
More in depth
| As already stated, those who own or
run the major banking houses, law firms, and insurance companies in the
London and New York area will be invited to join, together with a few very
specific government officials. This always includes the president of the
United States, the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. ambassador to Great
Britain. On the right you can see which other delegates traditionally are
recruited into Pilgrims. Chancellors, Chief Justices, and Attorney Generals
seem to be frequent members also. Occasional exceptions have been made to
allow writers, composers and art collectors into the society. An example of
that was Mark Twain. The patron of the |
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Scanned by Charles Savoie of
Silver Investor. |
| Pilgrims Society is the
king or queen of England and a member from the royal family usually attends
the Pilgrim dinners in Great Britain. |
That's basically all there is to this
Pilgrims Society; it's a dining club. Several times a year a dinner is planned
and the board chooses which members it will invite this time, usually somewhere
between 300 and 500. A few additional people are invited to hold a speech on a
variety of political topics and someone is made the guest of honor. This guest
of honor is usually a new member or a Pilgrim who has accomplished something
worth remembering. In addition, the chairman of the Society (in Britain it is
Robert M. Worcester atm) might give a speech to the CFR or the RIIA once in a
while. As already demonstrated, the speeches are both boring and interesting at
the same time. Boring because of their substance, and interesting because they
show us that Pilgrims, as a whole, aren't privy to many state secrets.
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A great example of the cooperation
between the London and American Pilgrims is theLondon Bush House, which was
ordered to be built in 1919 by Pilgrim Irving T. Bush, a N.Y. businessman.
At the time it was the most expensive building in the world and was meant to
be an Anglo-American trade center where buyers could purchase goods in one
place. It lost it's original function after a couple of decades, but still
exists today as an office to the BBC World Service. Above the entrance
there's a large statue, which represents this Anglo-American cooperation. |
Britain is represented on the left by
the lions, the USA is represented on the right by the Eagle. The Celtic cross
indicates their common heritage. The torch can represent freedom, wisdom,
victory, or something along that line. Below the statue you'll find the
inscription "To the friendship of English Speaking Peoples".
The Pilgrims Society is allied
with the
English-Speaking Union,
which is an organization that promotes the use of the English language all over
the world. The patron is the English queen and the president is prince Philip.
The chairman, as far as we know, is always a member of the Pilgrims.
The institutions the Pilgrims
control
| All the important members of the
1910 Jekyll Island meeting were Pilgrims; Vanderlip, Strong, Warburg,
Davison, Norton, and Aldrich. Senator Aldrich's closest ally in congress,
Edward B. Vreeland, was a Pilgrim too, together with his brother. Vreeland
helped Aldrich establish a privately owned central bank. Of course, J.P.
Morgan, George F. Baker, John D. Rockefeller, and Jacob Schiff were members
also. Keep in mind these people were often competing with each other and
weren't necessarily friends, as so many (conspiracy-oriented) people seem to
think. |
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| N.Y. FED
'Pilgrim-presidents' |
| Benjamin Strong |
1914-1928 |
| George Harrison |
1928-1940 |
| Allan Sproul |
1941-1956 |
| Alfred Hayes |
1956-1975 |
| Paul Volcker |
1975-1979 |
| Anthony Solomon |
1980-1985 |
| E. Gerald Corrigan |
1985-1993 |
| William J. McDonough |
1993-2003 |
| Timothy Geithner |
2003-present |
| Red
= confirmed Pilgrim |
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Pilgrim-presidents of the New York
Federal Reserve Bank cover the period from 1914 to 1979. The 4 presidents since
then have not been members as far as we know, although that's probably because
of a lack of recent data. Pilgrim-chairmen of the New York Federal Reserve cover
almost the entire period from the 1920s up to 1990, so we can safely assume that
the New York Federal Reserve Bank is owned by the Pilgrims. That's not that
unusual, because New York itself is Pilgrims property.
Because the Pilgrims have a large
influence on Washington politics, it would be interesting to see if they have
any members on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, also located in D.C. If
we have those names, we can estimate the Pilgrims' level of control over the
Federal Open Market Committee.
The FOMC is the main body of the Federal Reserve that decides on the monetary
policy. The New York FED then carries out those directives through it's daily
'open market operations'. In the words of the official Federal Reserve website
that I just gave a link to:
"Finally, the Committee [FOMC] must
reach a consensus regarding the appropriate course for policy, which is
incorporated in a directive to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York—the Bank
that executes transactions for the System Open Market Account. The directive is
cast in terms designed to provide guidance to the Manager in the conduct of
day-to-day open market operations. The directive sets forth the Committee's
objectives for long-run growth of certain key monetary and credit aggregates. It
also sets forth operating guidelines for the degree of ease or restraint to be
sought in reserve conditions and expectations with regard to short-term rates of
growth in the monetary aggregates."
The FOMC consists of the 7 FED
governors, 1 permanent New York FED president, and 4 presidents of the other 11
FED banks that rotate each year. The chairman of the board of governors is also
the chairman of the FOMC, and the president of the permanently represented New
York FED is the vice chairman of the FOMC. We quote from the same page:
"...Traditionally, the Chairman of
the Board of Governors is elected Chairman and the president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York is elected Vice Chairman..."
When sifting through the
members list,
it turns out that at least 4 of the 13 Federal Reserve chairmen are confirmed
Pilgrims (they cover the years 1933-1934 & 1959-1987). Two other chairmen,
Eugene Meyer and Alan Greenspan, have all the trademarks of being Pilgrims
members. If that could be confirmed, the FED's Board of Governors has had
Pilgrims as chairman from at least 1930 to 1934 & from 1959 on to 2005. In any
case, the Pilgrims Society seems to be represented a disproportionate amount on
the most influential places inside the U.S. monetary system, especially for a
society that doesn't want it's existence to be known to the general public. It
is likely that at least since 1959 the chairman and vice chairman of the FOMC
were Pilgrims, together with the persons carrying out the directives of the FOMC
through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
| Function |
Amount |
| CFR non-executive members |
45 |
| CFR executive members |
33 |
| Carnegie Institute executives |
21 |
| FED executive positions |
21 |
| J.P. Morgan executives |
17 |
| Chase Bank executives |
16 |
| Skull & Bones |
11 |
| President World
Bank |
4 (of 10) |
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After analyzing the Pilgrims
Society
members list
of about 360 names (updated in the meantime), I found that the institutions
you see on the left were the most often represented. About 75% of this list
is American and 25% British (rough estimate). This means that about 1 in 3
of the U.S. members of the Pilgrims Society is a confirmed member of the CFR.
Striking is the fact that such a large percentage of CFR members are
executive officers. About 50% of all the CFR executive officers have been
confirmed members of the Pilgrims Society, which seems to indicate that
quite possibly all of them are. |
I remember looking at an old documentary
about the CFR "master conspiracy". The usual stuff came by; banking, the
Illuminati and the dollar bill. At the end they showed these concentric rings,
indicating the CFR had unknown inner circles. Guess we can now say for sure what
the second circle is, counting from the outside. It's the Pilgrims Society and
it undeniably shows the close link between American and British foreign policy.
Of course, it has long been speculated
that the same group that set up the RIIA, set up the CFR, but I was never
convinced enough though, because the group connecting both organizations has
never been fully identified. The existence of the Round Table, however likely,
has never been proven. For now, the Pilgrims Society, a seemingly larger body,
is a fine substitute, because it shares many similarities with the "association
of helpers" from the Round Table. Read this text from the 1966 book 'Tragedy and
Hope - A history of the world in our time', written by Oxford professor Carroll
Quigley:
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"In 1891, Rhodes organized a
secret society with members in a "Circle of Initiates" and an outer circle
known as the "Association of Helpers" later organized as the Round Table
organization. In 1909-1913, they organized semi-secret groups know as Round
Table Groups in the chief British dependencies and the United States..
The Round Table Groups were
semi-secret discussion and lobbying groups whose original purpose was to
federate the English speaking world along lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes.
By 1915, Round Table groups existed in seven countries including England,
South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and the United States.
Money for their activities
originally came from Cecil Rhodes, J.P. Morgan, the Rockefeller and Whitney
families and associates of bankers Lazard Brothers and Morgan, Grenfell and
Company. |
The chief backbone of this
organization grew up along the already existing financial cooperation running
from the Morgan Bank in New York to a group of international financiers in
London led by Lazard Brothers.
Lionel Curtis established in England
and each dominion a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group.
This front organization called the Royal Institute of Public Affairs, had as its
nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group.
In New York, it was known as the
Council on Foreign Relations and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in
association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American
organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan "experts" including
Lamont and Beer, who had gone to the Paris Peace Conference and there became
close friends with the similar group of English "experts" which had been
recruited by the Milner group. In fact, the original plans for the Royal
Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1928, the Council on Foreign
Relations was dominated by the associates of the Morgan bank. Closely allied
with this Morgan influence were a small group of Wall Street lawyers whose chief
figures were Elihu Root, John W. Davis, the Dulles Brothers, John J. McCloy...
| ...There does exist and has
existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates
to some extent in the way the Radical Right believes the Communists act. In
fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no
aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and
frequently does so...
...It might be pointed out that the existence of this Wall Street
Anglo-American axis is quite obvious once it is pointed out. It is reflected
by the fact that such Wall Street luminaries such as John W. Davis, Lewis
Douglas, [John] Whitney and Douglas Dillon were appointed to be American
ambassadors in London." |
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If we forget about the other
groups, the description of the U.S. and U.K. Round Table Groups as submerged
nucleuses of respectively the CFR and the RIIA is the perfect description of
the Pilgrims Society. Also, the only name of a person in the quote above,
that is not represented in my incomplete Pilgrims
members list,
is Lionel Curtis. All the other names are confirmed Pilgrims. And what is
said here about the large number of Morgan representatives is something I
also immediately noticed when I was filling in all the biographies. Even
though Rockefeller interests, especially in later times, were just as
dominant, the history of the Morgan family really shows their ties to
England throughGeorge
Peabody and Junius S. Morgan. At the turn of the century, the Morgans
wielded enormous power over the United States economy
[1].
Besides the organizations I put in
the table above, you will also find that institutions like the Atlantic
Institute for International Affairs, Bilderberg, the Bohemian Grove, the
Trilateral Commission, the Brookings Institution, the Ford Foundation, the
Ditchley Foundations, the Fabian Society, the Japan Society, the Asia
Society, the American-Australian Association, and some others, are quite
frequently represented. I didn't specifically look for these institutions
though, simply because it takes me too much time. Often, these institutes
aren't mentioned in the bios of the person you're researching. |
The reason that you find quite a few
Skull & Bones members (or members who have family in Skull & bones) in the
Pilgrims Society is probably because Yale is a prestigious University and a
first choice for many law and MBA students. It's also located very close to New
York. Don't kid yourself however, 20 year old boys don't rule anything. You'll
also find at least 5 Scroll & Key members and many more Yale students who
haven't been into any society. But as far as I can see, the Pilgrims Society is
open to anyone who learns enough, works enough, and winds up in the right place
for a Pilgrims invitation. Harvard and Columbia are other common universities
where Pilgrims have studied.
Some examples of involvement of
the Pilgrims over the last 100 years
- 1906 - Pilgrims are
involved in the secret Algeciras Conference to settle a dispute among the
British, Germans, and French about the division of Morocco.
- 1913 - The earlier
mentioned establishment of the Federal Reserve and of course the 1910 Jekyll
Island meeting that preceded it.
- 1917 - Some Pilgrims
are said to have been financing the Communist revolution of 1917. Most is
known about the partners of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Pilgrims Jacob Schiff, Paul
Warburg and Otto Kahn.
- 1919 - Many Pilgrims
played an important role in the Versailles peace conferences following WWI. In
all the history books I've seen, only the discussions of the 'big three',
Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau, are emphasized. I'm still
looking for all the names involved, but I've already seen quite a few Pilgrims
and suspected Pilgrims. In any case, Robert Cecil, chairman of the Supreme
Economic Council of the Versailles Peace Treaty was a member. In the same
year, he was the chairman of the committee that established the Royal
Institute of International Affairs.
- 1924 - After the
German economy was completely taken apart and they couldn't pay their imposed
debts anymore, the Reparations Commission Committee of Experts was set up.
President Coolidge appointed Pilgrim Charles G. Dawes as chairman. The
committee comes up with the so called 'Dawes-plan'.
- 1927 - It is said
that Pilgrim Benjamin Strong (head FED) and Pilgrim Montagu Norman (head Bank
of England) had at least one secret meeting in July of this year with their
friend Hjalmar Schacht of the German Reichsbank.
- 1930 - The Young
plan, which is named after committee chairman and Pilgrim Owen D. Young, is
introduced as a follow up of the Pilgrims concocted Dawes plan, because
Germany still can't pay their debts. Hjalmar Schacht doesn't agree with the
reparations and quits as the head of the German Reichsbank. The same year
Schacht becomes a Fascist, starts bringing all the German industrialists
together and becomes the most crucial person for bringing Hitler to power in
1933.
- 1933 and on - J.P.
Morgan and Rockefeller associates are financing Nazi germany. Pilgrims Watson
and Watson Jr. of IBM are involved. Pilgrims Douglas Dillon Sr. and Jr. are
involved. Pilgrim Averell Harriman is involved. Ford was involved, and looking
at the prominent presence of the Ford Foundation in the Pilgrims Society, he
probably was a member too.
- 1934 - Because
general Smedley Butler exposes the planned coup, FDR is not overthrown and
replaced by a fascist government. The persons financing various fascist
elements turn out to be the Pilgrims Morgan Jr., the du Ponts, Louis S. Cates
through Phelps-Dodge company, and undoubtedly many other, but unconfirmed,
Pilgrims. As for Phelps-Dodge, the Rockefellers had married into that fortune
in 1907 through a marriage between Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of William
Rockefeller, and Marcellus Hartley Dodge.
- 1945 - Nazis,
Knights of Malta (SMOM), and elements in the OSS create the so called 'Vatican
rat lines', through which thousands of Nazis are smuggled into Spain,
South-Africa, and South-America. Pilgrim and SMOM member Allen Dulles played a
large role in this project. He also plays a crucial role in releasing and
recruiting Nazi intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen (Le Cercle) so this person
can establish the Gehlen Organization. This Gehlen Org becomes the eyes and
ears of the CIA in eastern Europe. Reinhard recruits many serious nazis in his
organization.
- 1946 - Pilgrim
Francis Beverly Biddle was one of the four primary judges at the Nuremberg
trials representing the United States. I'll bet the British judge (and
president) of the trials was a member of the British Pilgrims.
- 1947 - Pilgrims
Society member, five-star general and U.S. Secretary of State George C.
Marshall introduces his European Recovery Program (ERP).
- around 1948 -
Pilgrim John J. McCloy oversees the release of Fritz Thyssen, Hjalmar Schacht,
Friedrich Flick and Alfred Krupp. They are the main industrialists who built
up the Nazi war machine and are close associates of different Pilgrims Society
members.
- 1949 - Pilgrims
member and ambassador Lewis Williams Douglas had a daughter, Sharman Douglas,
who, according to a very sure ITV (competitor of the BBC), had a 2-year
lesbian affair with Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, Princess Margaret
Windsor. Sharman also married Andrew Hay of the Pilgrims. (Normally I wouldn't
dive into tabloid topics, but this is just too funny to pass over)
- 1951 - General
Douglas MacArthur, who has just driven back the North-Koreans, is removed from
his command when he doesn't accept the decision from the US government to not
attack the Chinese forces. Pilgrims Harry Truman, Dean Acheson and George C.
Marshall are his main adversaries on this issue. MacArthur is replaced by
Pilgrim Matthew B. Ridgway. Senator McCarthy attacks Truman, Acheson and
Marshall for being in the communist camp.
- 1954 - Some of the
earliest invites to the Bilderberg conference are Pilgrims Society members;
David Rockefeller, George Ball, and Henry Heinz.
- 1961 - Howard
Hughes, owner of Trans World Airlines, is charging Pilgrim Charles C.
Tillinghast, Jr., the president of his company, with conspiring with others to
take over the ownership the company.
- 1963 - Pilgrims John
J. McCloy and Allen Dulles are members of the Warren Commission. Gerald Ford,
a future honorary Pilgrim, is a third member.
- 1965-1973 - During
the Vietnam war, Pilgrim Henry Kissinger is the chief US negotiator for the
communist regimes. At the same time, Kissinger and many of his Pilgrims
Society buddies were investing massive amounts of capital into the Soviet
Union, even though this country continued to supply about 50% of
North-Vietnams military arms. Of course, these were allowed to enter
North-Vietnam almost unobstructed, because the US government was afraid for an
escalation of the conflict if Haiphong harbor was closed off and bombed into
oblivion. Pilgrims Society members controlled at least some of the
institutions that had to check the goods that were imported into the USSR.
- 1973 - Pilgrim
Edward W. Simon was chairman of the President's Oil Policy Committee from
February to December of 1973 (oil crisis started in October in the midst of
the Yom Kippur war). He also was an administrator of the Federal Energy Office
since December 1973 and was charged with the responsibility of minimizing the
effects of the energy crisis and preventing future crises (decided the oil
prices and the distribution). Together with Pilgrim Henry Kissinger he was the
most important speaker of the 1974 International Energy Conference. In 1973,
Henry Kissinger first informed the Pilgrims about the creation of an
"International Energy group", which became the International Energy Agency.
- 1975 - Pilgrim
Nelson Rockefeller heads the U.S. President's Commission on CIA Activities
Within the United States. It was created in response to a December 1974 report
in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities,
including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission was,
among other things, responsible for the investigation and publication of
Project MKULTRA, a CIA mind control study.
- 1977 - Pilgrims
Society member Edmund de Rothschild attends the 1st World Wilderness
Conference. At the 4th conference Maurice Strong will inform everyone that
Edmund was the founder of the environmental movement and climate debates
everyone has become so accustomed to.
- 1992 - Pilgrim Lord
Bingham of Cornhill heads an inquiry into the Bank of England to find out
their responsibility in the BCCI drug laundering scandal. Turns out the Bank
of England was just a bit lazy, but didn't do anything on purpose. The persons
that owned the BCCI were 1001 Club member like Agha Hasan Abedi and Salem Bin
Laden. Kalid bin Mahfouz was another one. Lord Bingham became a member of the
very elite Order of Garter in 2005. Some other persons involved with the BCCI
scandal were members of the secret international intelligence group Le Cercle.
- 2001 - Henry
Kissinger, who was picked as the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission, was a
Pilgrim, not to mention one of the pioneers of psychological warfare in the
aftermath of WWII; all in all, a great asset to have on a truth commission.
The old vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, George John Mitchell, became a
director of the CFR in 1995, so chances are very substantial he's a Pilgrim
too. The new chairman, Thomas H. Kean, is from a very prominent New Jersey
family and has been a chairman of the Carnegie Foundation, so don't be
surprised if it turns out that he also attends Pilgrims dinners (or 1001 Club
meetings in his case).
- 2002 - In December
of this year, Pilgrims Society member Lord Guthrie, former chief of the
Defense Staff and out of office by then, is send to Turkey to discuss a
possible invasion of Iraq via Turkey. He becomes an apologist for the Bush and
Blair administrations, and warns the public for biological and nuclear attacks
by terrorists. According to him, Syria is one of the largest supporters of
terrorism. But who else is Lord Guthrie? He's a member of the Knights of
Malta, a patron of the Cardinal Hume centre, a director of N.M. Rothschild &
Sons, and represents the latter to the Trilateral Commission since 2002. In
the past, Guthrie has been appointed Gold Stick to the Queen and Freeman of
the City of London. He was also appointed Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen in
1993.
- 2004 - Pilgrims
Society member Lord Peter Inge is part of a five-member panel that looks into
the gathered intelligence that was used to justify an invasion in Iraq the
year before. All 5 are Privy Councillors and just as the panel's chairman,
Lord Inge is a knight of the Order of the Garter.
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Conclusion
It is obvious that the Pilgrims
Society has a very interesting history and that it's
membership
consists of very influential people. Above all, it seems that the Pilgrims
Society represents that old dream of Cecil Rhodes to create a worldwide
English-speaking free-trade zone (his exact words), with the dominant
position for the Anglo-Saxon race. Rhodes had also been speculating about a
network of secret societies that had to absorb the wealth of the world. In
fact, the enormous fortune he left behind was probably used to set up the
Pilgrims Society just 4 months after he died. But especially these days,
'free-trade' policies seem to |
| be nothing more than a
tool by which western companies wrestle control of foreign markets. This
makes it hard to say if their ultimate goal of 'global peace' really is that
noble. |
In the course the 20th century,
especially after WWII, many organizations with similar objectives have sprung up
worldwide. Among them are Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the British
Invisibles, the European Round Table, the Group of thirty, the European
Institute, the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, the 1001 Club, the EU-Japan
Business Dialogue, the Pacific Basin Economic Council, Le Cercle, the
Multinational Chairman's Group, and dozens more.
In every single case, British and
American interests are represented more than adequately, at the very least in
leadership positions. Even though recent names are in rather short supply it has
already become obvious that we can find most, if not all of these leaders back
in the Pilgrims Society. This indicates that we are dealing with one of the most
important privately funded institutions of the globalist movement. But, like I
already said, let's not exaggerate by saying that we found 'the puppet masters'
or something like that. At any time, there are loads of intelligence operations
going on most of the well over a 1000 members know nothing about. Also, looking
at the bios, it's obvious that there is considerable infighting going on and
that different members can't get along with each other at all. So, as for now, I
suggest that we focus our energy on gathering as many names as possible. Then
the picture will become clear by itself.
A lot of additional information on
the Anglo-American establishment and/or the British Empire can be found in the
books of professor Carroll Quigley. The articles on
Executive Intelligence Review
also contain a lot of insightful information.
References
| [1] |
October 1901, #6, McClure’s
Magazine, ‘J. Pierpont Morgan’ |
| [2] |
February 05, 1903, Reuters, 'Lord
C. Beresford in Washington' |
| [3] |
March 3, 1903, The Scotsman, 'Great
Britain and the United States - Banquet in London' |
| [4] |
June 20, 1903, The Scotsman, 'MP
George Wyndham at the Pilgrims Club' |
| [5] |
February 20, 1908, New York Times,
‘Ambassador Reid – the Pilgrims guest’ |
| [6] |
April 24, 1910, Associated Press,
Mark Twain deceased - Pilgrims visit |
| [7] |
February 6, 1913, The Scotsman,
King George delivers message at Pilgrims Society |
| [8] |
December 24, 1915, The Scotsman,
'Closer Unity of the British Empire' |
| [9] |
June 1, 1918, Press Association,
'Hands off the Southern Pacific' |
| [10] |
December 22, 1919, The Scotsman,
Pilgrims celebrate 299th birthday of original Pilgrims |
| [11] |
March 17, 1924, Time Magazine, 'A
Summing-Up' |
| [12] |
April 21, 1924, Time Magazine, 'The
Judgment' |
| [13] |
December 2, 1926, The Scotsman,
'Duke of York - Pilgrims God Speed' |
| [14] |
May 4, 1928, The Scotsman, Nicholas
Butler becomes the new president of the U.S. club |
| [15] |
July 6, 1931, Time Magazine, '30
Years of Picasso' |
| [16] |
October 26, 1939, The Scotsman,
Pilgrims speaker denounces the Nazis as Barbarian Pagans |
| [17] |
November 6, 1939, Time Magazine,
‘Aims and Rights’ |
| [18] |
1940, John Whiteford, ‘Sir Uncle
Sam, Knight of the British Empire’ |
| [19] |
January 20, 1941, Time Magazine,
'Churchill & the U.S.' |
| [20] |
March 20, 1941, The Scotsman, Nazis
denounce Churchill's Pilgrims speech and the Anglo-Saxons |
| [21] |
December 3, 1942, The Scotsman,
'New World Order - Path of Equality and Human Brotherhood' |
| [22] |
E.C. Knuth, 1946, ‘The Empire of
the City’ |
| [23] |
December 13, 1947, The Scotsman,
'Marshall on his Mission' |
| [24] |
October 23, 1950, Time Magazine, No
Pushing |
| [25] |
November 7, 1950, The Scotsman, 'No
Slackening after Korea' |
| [26] |
Oct. 27, 1952, Time Magazine, 'No
Pushing' |
| [26] |
July 2, 1956, Time Magazine, 'Give
'Em Hell, Harricum!' |
| [27] |
Dec. 8, 1958, Time Magazine, 'The
Double Dare' |
| [28] |
April 16, 1965, Time Magazine,
Ambassador Patrick farewell |
| [29] |
1966, Carroll Quigley, 'Tragedy and
Hope - A history of the world in our time' |
| [30] |
December 1973, Kissinger addresses
the Pilgrims and suggests an "International Energy group" |
| [31] |
June 1975, American
Opinion, William P. Hoar, ‘Henry Kissinger: This Man Is On The Other Side’ |
| [32] |
January 30, 1981, Reuters, 'Mrs.
Thatcher Detects No Sign Of Moscow's Interest in Detente' (excerpt)
|
| [33] |
1983 (original from 1952), Eustace
Mullins, ‘Secrets of the Federal Reserve’ |
| [34] |
December 10, 1985, New York Times,
' Excerpts From Shultz Remarks on Aid to Rebels' (excerpt) |
| [35] |
Official Federal Reserve websites |
| [36] |
April 20, 1994, The Times, 'Britain
belongs to Europe' |
| [37] |
April 20, 1994, The Times, 'US
ambassador leaves with rebuke for Euro-sceptics; Raymond Seitz' |
| [38] |
November 16, 1994, The Times, 'US
tries to forge pact on eastward expansion of Nato' |
| [39] |
April 6, 1995, The Times, 'FDR and
The Times' |
| [40] |
June 30, 1999, MOD, Speech of
George Robertson |
| [41] |
2002, Anne Baker Pimlott, ‘The
Pilgrims of Great Britain – a centennial history’ |
| [42] |
2002, Antony Sutton, ‘America’s
Secret Establishment’ |
| [43] |
Watch.pair.com, ‘The Pilgrim
Society & The English Speaking Union’ |
| [44] |
January 31, 2002, nato.int, ‘NATO
After September 11’ |
| [45] |
November 28, 2002, U.S. State
Department, ‘State's Boucher on U.S. Foreign Policy, EU and NATO, Iraq,
Freedom’ |
| [46] |
2002, University of Dundee, 'Laureation
Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne - Professor Alan Newell' |
| [47] |
January 21, 2004, Royal.gov.uk,
'Diary of engagements of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh...' |
| [48] |
February 4, 2004, Times Online,
'Today's royal engagements' |
| [49] |
February 12, 2004, The UK Mission
to the United Nations, 'Speech to Pilgrims of the United States on "A
Multilateral Journey"' |
| [50] |
September 16, 2004, Chatham House,
internal program list names Robert Worcester as a Pilgrim |
| [51] |
September 2004, English Speaking
Union, 'Panel Discussion on the US Election' |
| [52] |
Charles Savoie, Silver Investor,
2004-2005, ‘Meet the World Money Power’-series. (highly
recommended. Many names come from this person's research.) |
| [53] |
Kansas City Infozine, biography of
Robert M. Worcester (again) confirms he is a chairman of the Pilgrims.
|
| [54] |
Corporate Entertainer Magazine,
'Banking on Hospitality' (article on Rupert Hambro, year unknown)
|
Author:
Joël van der Reijden
Original: May 3, 2005
Last update: March 31, 2006
Version: 1.8
The group
surrounding the Rockefeller and Rothschild families

- Lots of biographical updates in the
Pilgrims Society membership list.
Two important names that are added, earlier mentioned by Charles Savoie, are
Sir Cyril Hugh Kleinwort (has a nephew in the 1001 Club) and Sir Peter
Sutherland. Sutherland is huge and already in my introduction article I
described him as "almost certainly a Pilgrim." So predictable...
- While doing the updates I noticed that the Chief
Justices of the US Supreme Court that have certainly been recruited in the
Pilgrims Society cover the period from 1921 to 1941 and from 1969 to 2005,
which is enough to add this position to the gif oversight. And because Chief
Justices also are automatically elected chancellors of the Smithsonian Board
of Regents, that institute has been added to the gif also. A few other
Pilgrims have been trustees/regents/secretaries of the Smithsonian, but many
more undoubtedly still have to be found within the Pilgrims ranks.
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|
Pilgrims Society
Incomplete membership list
continually updated
Besides the regular members, all of
the persons who occupied the following positions have been made honorary
members and have attended the meetings:
| |
President of the US |
|
| UK ambassador to the US
(complete)
|
UK secretary of state |
Permanent representative of the UK
to the UN |
| US ambassador to the UK |
US secretary of state |
UK consul general at NY |
The head of the Episcopalian Church in the U.S. and
the Archbishop of Canterbury (head Anglican church) were both
vice-presidents of the Pilgrims Society in 1942. If this is always the case
is unknown.
Over time newly found members will be added, just
as additional biographical data. The most interesting aspects of a persons
life are often also the most hidden.
| Royal family
members |
Pilgrim
function |
Life
|
Biography |
| Windsor, Queen
Elizabeth Mary II |
patron |
1926-alive
|
Queen of England
since 1953, married to Prince Philip Mountbatten. The Queen has been,
and might still be, a major stockholder in Rio Tinto and other large
corporations. No official details are ever released.
[queen] ”Nobody, Paul has been as close to a member
of my family as you have. There are powers at work in this country about
which we have no knowledge.”
[Paul] “She wanted me to make sure my wife Maria
and children remained safe. It was not a threat, it was sound advice.
She had my interests at heart…No-one had never warned me like that. It
made me suddenly realise the magnitude of the situation. It was
obviously much, much bigger than I had ever thought.”
- The Queen and Paul Burrell in a 3-hour talk in November of 1997 at
Buckinham Palace. Paul was the butler of Diana right up until her death
on August 31, 1997. In January of 2001, Paul was accused of stealing
some items from the Diana after her death. On November 1, 2001, the
trial collapsed when the Queen herself stated that Paul had informed her
of taking these items with him. (The Mirror in an interview with Paul
Burrell - June 11, 2002)
|
| Mountbatten, Prince
Philip |
|
1921-alive
|
Born in 1921 on the
Isle of Corfu, Greece. Parents were evacuated from Greece after a
revolution and both became depressed (father) or mentally instable
(mother). Studied in Germany under Kurt Hahn and both came to Scotland
in 1933. Played polo in his youth, often against Sir Evelyn de
Rothschild. Philip is the Duke of Edinburgh, a Knight of the Order of
the Garter, a Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Grand Master and First
or Principal Knight of the Order of the British Empire, and was a prince
of Greece and Denmark until he married. Patron or President of 814
organizations. His wife, Queen Elizabeth II is patron of the Pilgrims
Society. Long career in the navy from the start of WWII as a midshipsman
to commanding his own frigate, the HMS Magpie. William R. Denslow's
10,000 Famous Freemasons: "Philip was initiated in Navy Lodge No.
2612 of London on Dec 5, 1952. Present at the initiation were the Earl
of Scarbrough, grand master, q.v., and Geoffrey Fisher, archbishop of
Canterbury." Philip is a Master Mason, never having shown great
interest in the organization, while his cousin, Prince Edward (b. 1935)
is the grand master of the United Grand Lodge. He and his wife set off
for a tour of the Commonwealth, with visits to Africa, Australia, and
New Zealand in 1952. They went on to visit the remote parts of the
Commonwealth in 1956. Gordon Creighton, a Foreign Service official and
Intelligence officer, concluded his story about a reported 1960s UFO
landing on the estate of Prince Philip with: "So there had been a
landing on the estate of Mountbatten and there was Mountbatten's great
interest." The entire testimony was made during an interview with
the Disclosure Project in September 2000. Prince Philip supposedly had a
drawer full of sketches and information on different types of UFOs.
Philip co-founded the WWF International in 1961 with Julian Huxley and
Prince Bernhard. He has been the long time president of WWF UK.
Co-founded the 1001 Nature Trust and 1001 Club from 1971 to 1974,
together with Anton Rupert and Prince Bernhard. Co-founded Population
Concern in 1977 with Earnest Kleinwort, Sir Cyril Kleinwort (Pilgrims),
Prince Philip, Lord Caradon, Lord Renton and Lord McCorquodale.
Co-founded the Interfaith consultations between Jews, Christians, and
Muslims in 1984, together with Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and Sir
Evelyn de Rothschild at Windsor castle. In August 1988, Prince Philip
said to the West German Deutsche Press Agentur: "In the event that I
am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to
contribute something to solve overpopulation". He wrote something
along similar lines in the foreword of the 1987 book 'If I Were An
Animal', written by Fleur Cowles. Philip was supposedly hostile to Diana
after she divorced Charles in 1996. Mohamed Al-Fayed claimed Prince
Philip had ordered Diana's murder who was killed in a car crash on
August 31, 1997. Queen Elizabeth II said to Diana's butler Paul Burrell
in December 1997: "Nobody, Paul has been as close to a member of my
family as you have... There are powers at work in this country about
which we have no knowledge." She advised him to be cautious and to
lay low. Unlike his son, Charles, Philip supports genetically modified
foods. On June 7, 2000, The Guardian quoted the Duke of Edinburgh as
saying: "Do not let us forget we have been genetically modifying
animals and plants ever since people started selective breeding."
Philip is known to be the head of the family; what he says, generally
goes. He is still president emeritus of the WWF International. |
| Laurence, Princess
Anne |
|
1950-alive
|
HRH The Princess
Royal. Daughter of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. Younger sister
of Prince Charles. Attended a dinner of the Pilgrim Society on February
4, 2004 at 3:45 PM, Four Seasons Hotel, Hamilton Place, London. She is a
member of the Order of the Garter. |
| Windsor, Prince
Charles |
|
1948-alive
|
Became Duke of
Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the
Isles and Great Steward of Scotland and Knight of the Garter when
Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. Studied in part under Kurt Hahn,
invested as Prince of Wales in 1969, assumed a seat in the House of
Lords in 1970, married Lady Diana Frances Spencer in 1981, divorced in
1996 and Diana died in a car crash in 1997, married Camilla Parker
Bowles in 2005, heir to the British Throne. Anno 2005 he is listed as a
member of the Advisory Board of The Pilgrims of the United States.
|
| Windsor, Prince
Andrew Edward |
|
1960-alive
|
Third child and
second son of Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh. When he
married he was created The Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron
Killyleagh. He currently serves as United Kingdom's Special
Representative for International Trade and Investment. |
| Windsor, Prince
Arthur William Patrick Albert |
president |
1850–1942
|
English prince, son
of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, brother of Edward VII. Trained for
a military career, he served in Egypt (1882) and India (1886–1890) and
as commander in chief in the Mediterranean 1907-1909. He was
governor-general of Canada 1911-1916. His son, Prince Arthur of
Connaught 1883-1938, was governor-general of South Africa 1920-1923. |
| Windor, Prince Edward
|
|
b. 1935
|
Duke of Kent.
Brother of King George VI. Knight of the Garter. Has been vice-chairman
of British Trade International and the United Kingdom's Special
Representative for International Trade and Investment. President of the
British Invisibles, which these days tend to use the more official name
International Financial Services, London (IFSL). Grand Master of the
Order of St Michael and St George since 1967. Grand Master of the United
Grand Lodge of England, which is the governing body of Freemasonry in
England, Wales, and the Channel Islands. Photographed in the early 1960s
during a Pilgrims Society diner in London, standing next to Walter
Elliot, Lord Halifax, Joseph Kennedy, and Lord Derby. |
|
Other members
|
Pilgrim function
|
Life
|
Biography
|
| Adams, Charles
Francis IV |
|
1910-1999
|
Direct descendant of
President John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Spent several years with his
parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. Harvard College. Partner in Paine,
Webber, Jackson, & Curtis banking firm 1937-1947. Director of Raytheon
1938-1942. U.S. Naval Reserve with active duty, commanding destroyer
escorts in the Atlantic & Pacific theaters 1942-1945. Commander in chief
of the Atlantic Fleet 1945-1947. President of Raytheon (sales grew forty
fold in his almost 40 years with the company) 1948-1960 & 1962-1964.
Chairman of Raytheon 1960-1962 & 1964-1972. Retired as director of
Raytheon in 1997. Director of the First National Bank of Boston, the
Gillette Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Sheraton
Corporation, Bath Iron Works, Associated Industries of Massachusetts,
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Pan American World Airways, and the
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation. Chairman of the
Board of Visitors of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University. Trustee of the Children's Hospital, the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, the Industrial School for Crippled Children,
the Massachusetts Humane Society, the Naval War College Foundation and
more. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Vice
President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. |
| Acheson, Dean
Gooderham |
|
1893-1973
|
Yale Scroll & Key
1915. Harvard 1915-1918. Private secretary to the Supreme Court Justice
1919-1921. Became Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933. Constructed
the Marshall Plan with General Marshall and Will Clayton, according to
Pilgrims Society member David K.E. Bruce. U.S. Secretary of State under
Harry S. Truman 1949-1953. Accused of being soft on Communism and had a
dispute with General Douglas MacArthur. Mccarthy saw him as one the most
dangerous Communists and believed that the "Acheson group had almost
hypnotic powers over Truman." Member Council on Foreign Relations. His
son, David C. Acheson ended up in the 1943 Skull & Bones class. |
| Acton, Lord
|
|
alive
|
Born in Shropshire,
England. Acton's family immigrated in 1948 to Southern Rhodesia, now
Zimbabwe, where he was educated at St. George's College, Salisbury.
Later he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in modern history
at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1989, he took his seat in the House of
Lords as the fourth Lord Acton, dividing his time between Iowa and
London since his marriage to Patricia Nassif, a clinical professor at
the UI College of Law. Later, the government of the United Kingdom put
forth a proposal to restructure the House of Lords. This passed in
November 1999, which resulted in the abolition of Acton's hereditary
peerage. However, the Prime Minister appointed him as a Life Peer, and
Acton returned to the House of Lords in April. Acton is also a writer
whose articles have appeared in many American periodicals, including The
New York Times Book Review, The North American Review, British Heritage,
the Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco
Chronicle. In 1995, Acton and his wife wrote a book on the legal history
of Iowa entitled, "To Go Free: A Treasury of Iowa's Legal Heritage,"
published by Iowa State University Press to commemorate Iowa's
sesquicentennial. He also received the Iowa State Historical Society's
Throne/Aldrich Award in 1995 for the best article on Iowa history
published by The Palimpset. His articles have appeared in The Iowan and
The Des Moines Register. His latest book is "A Brit Among the Hawkeyes,"
published by Iowa State University Press. Has spoken at the Iowa City
Foreign Relations Council (ICFRC), which is in the neighborhood he often
lives. He and his wife split their time between Ceder Rapids and London.
He is a member of the Royal Africa Society and the Pilgrims Society.
Lord Acton is writing a book about one his forefathers, Sir John Acton,
who, according to him, ruled Naples and Sicily in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries. |
| Adler, Julius Ochs
|
|
1892-1955
|
His family started
the New York Times, received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple
Heart, the Silver Star, Star with Oak Leaf Clusters, the French Legion
of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre for his achievements as
commander of a battalion of infantry on the Western Front in France in
WWI, as a General he commanded the 77th Infantry Division, responsible
for the defense of Hawaii from 1941 to 1944. After World War II, joined
The New York Times as vice-president, later to become general manager,
publisher of the Chattanooga Times, invited by General Eisenhower to
visit the liberated concentration camps in 1945, which inspired him to
write a bunch of articles on his experiences, appointed as major general
in the Army Reserve in 1948. |
| Aiken, Alfred
Lawrence |
exec. committee |
1870-1946
|
Graduated from Yale
in 1891, president Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 1914-1917, president
and chairman National Shawmut Bank of Boston 1918-1924, director New
York Life Insurance Co 1924-1936, president of New York Life Insurance &
Co. in 1936, trustee of Clark University and Wellesley College, member
Council on Foreign Relations. |
| Aldrich, Herbert I.
|
|
unknown
|
This name was
mentioned by J. Thorkelson, a U.S. Congressman from Montana, in a speech
to the U.S. House of Representatives on August 20, 1940. |
| Aldrich, Nelson
Wilmarth |
|
1841-1915
|
Nelson W. Aldrich.
Private in the Rhode Island National Guard during the American Civil
War. Elected to Rhodes Island city council 1869. Rhodes Island city
council president 1872-1873. Republican Congressman 1879-1881. Senator
1881-1911. His daughter marries John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. in 1901.
In 1906 Aldrich is accused of taking huge bribes from corporations in an
article of Cosmopolitan. Attends the Jekyll Island meeting on November
22, 1910. Chairman Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard,
Committee on Rules, Select Committee on Corporations Organized in the
District of Columbia, Committee on Finance, and the National Monetary
Commission. Aldrich worked together with co-Pilgrim and
congressman/banker Edward Butterfield Vreeland to establish the Federal
Reserve. |
| Aldrich, Winthrop
Williams |
|
1885-1974
|
Winthrop W. Aldrich
was the uncle of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The major stockholder in
Equitable Trust Company (merged with Chase National Bank in 1930).
President of Chase National Bank 1930-1934 and chairman from 1934 to
1953 (Chase National Bank eventually became Chase Manhattan and J.P.
Morgan Chase). Ambassador to England from 1950 to 1953 and gave a speech
to the English Pilgrims on March 19, 1953. Director of Westinghouse
Electric, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), International Paper,
Discount Corporation of New York, Metropolitan Life Insurance, and the
American Society for the Control of Cancer. |
| Aldrich, Malcolm
Pratt |
|
born 1900
|
Yale Skull & Bones
1922. Cousin of Winthrop Aldrich. Head of the Commonwealth Fund. |
| Aldrich, Hulbert
Stratton |
|
born 1907
|
Cousin of Winthrop
Aldrich, president of Greer School with mrs. David Rockefeller
(1942/1947), vice chairman of Chemical Bank 1959-1972, director of
Ametek Incorporated, IBM World Trade Corporation, Empire Savings Bank,
George W. Rogers Construction Corporation, Peter Paul Incorporated,
president of Commonwealth Fund (succeeded Pilgrim Edward S. Harkness),
Royal Globe Insurance Group and Hill Samuel Group Limited, London. |
| Alexander, Charles
Beatty |
|
1849-1927
|
Grandson of a
co-founder of Princeton Theological Seminary, trustee of Princeton
University, married into the Crocker fortune of 40 million (1888)
dollars, director of the International Banking Corporation, Mercantile
Trust Company; Equitable Trust Company, Equitable Life Assurance,
Society of the U.S., Tri-State Land Company, Windsor Trust, member of
the Society of the Cincinnati. |
| Alexander, Henry Clay |
|
unknown
|
Studied at
Vanderbilt University and Yale where he graduated in 1923 and 1925,
Trustee of Vanderbilt University, president J.P. Morgan & Company,
chairman Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in 1960, director
General Motors & Johns-Manville Corporation |
| Anderson, Arthur
Marvin |
|
died 1966
|
Director of Northern
Pacific Ry, director U.S. Steel Corporation, vice-chairman J.P. Morgan &
Company, has a ship named after him. |
| Angell, Ernest
|
|
unknown
|
Lived from about
1890 to the 1970s, attended Harvard in 1907, New York lawyer, married
Elizabeth Chapin of the American Motors fortune, national chairman of
the A.C.L.U., member of the International Commission of Jurists meetings
in Athens and New Delhi. |
| Angelson, Mark A. |
|
alive
|
Educated at Rutgers
College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and at Rutgers Law
School. Angelson began his career in 1975 as a lawyer with Sullivan &
Cromwell. From 1982 through 1995, he practiced with Sidley & Austin,
serving as Co-Chair of International Operations and Resident Managing
Partner of the law firm's offices in Singapore, New York and London.
During this period, he participated in the development of substantial,
notably successful law practices in each of those cities, and served on
the boards of various multinational companies and not-for-profit
organizations. From 1996 until 2001, Mr. Angelson served in various
capacities, including as Executive Deputy Chairman, at Big Flower
Holdings (NYSE: BGF), a printing and advertising services holding
company, and its successor, Vertis Holdings, Inc. At Big Flower, he was
involved in approximately 30 printing industry acquisitions and related
financings, and the $2 billion leveraged recapitalization and sale of
control of the company to Thomas H. Lee Fund IV and Evercore Capital
Partners. Before assuming his current position, Mr. Angelson served as
Chief Executive Officer of Moore Wallace Incorporated (TSX, NYSE: MWI),
the third largest printing company in North America. He was a principal
architect of the merger between RR Donnelley and Moore Wallace, and of
the earlier merger between Moore Corporation Limited (TSX, NYSE: MCL)
and Wallace Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: WCS). Prior to joining Moore
as CEO, Mr. Angelson served as Moore's Non-Executive Chairman and Lead
Independent Director. Previously, Mr. Angelson served as Deputy Chairman
of Chancery Lane Capital, the New York-based private equity investment
firm that led the Chancery Lane/GSC Partners L.P. investment in Moore
and recruited the Moore management team. Today he is Chief Executive
Officer of Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NYSE: RRD), the
largest provider of printing and print-related services in the world,
with approximately 43,000 employees, annual revenues of approximately $8
billion, nearly 600 locations around the globe and more than 40,000
customer relationships. The company provides these services to the
catalog, retail, magazine, book, directory, advertising, financial,
healthcare, telecommunications, automotive and many other industries. He
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), a Fellow of
the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce
(London), a Trustee of Northwestern University, a member of the
Executive Committee of the Board of the Chicago Council on Foreign
Relations, and a member of the Pilgrims of Great Britain, the Yale Club
of New York City, The Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club and the
Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. |
| Annenberg, Walter H.
|
|
1908-2002
|
Son of Moses
Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The story of Moses &
Max (older brother) Annenberg is a tale of a hardworking immigrants and
financial geniuses who got their start working alongside violent Chicago
gangsters while employed by newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst at
the turn of the last century. After some time, the owner of the Tribune,
Bertie McCormick, decided to hire Moses Annenberg away from Hearst. For
a while, the Annenberg brothers were sending out thugs to battle each
other. Fifteen years later, Max Annenberg was alleged to be an associate
and friend of Chicago crime boss Al Capone. In 1924, Moses Annenberg got
involved with a racing news service in Chicago and Milwaukee. Soon there
were reports that those who didn't take the Annenberg race wire service
were themselves the victims of beatings, fire bombings and, on occasion,
murder. The crime syndicates had come to be dependent on Moses
Annenberg. Without his service they couldn't operate their illegal
gambling rackets. In 1938, the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes,
traveled from Washington D.C. to give a speech in Philadelphia
condemning Moses Annenberg, who, at that time, was backing the
Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. Ickes charged it was
Annenberg's violent tactics during the Chicago newspaper wars that
inspired gangsters like Al Capone. Ickes said that "the hiring of
Moses Annenberg by Hearst was the beginning of the subsequent flood of
lawlessness that almost engulfed law enforcement in the United States."
Moses, Walter, and 2 other business associates were indicted in
1939 for evading more than $2 million in taxes and another $3 million in
penalties and interest. Moses was later separately indicted for
conspiring to bribe a Philadelphia detective. In April 1940, Moses
Annenberg agreed to plead guilty to one count -- "willfully" evading
$1,217,296 -- and to pay almost $9 million in fines and penalties. In
exchange for his plea the government agreed to drop all charges against
his son, Walter Annenberg. In the 1940s, Walter Annenberg established
Triangle Broadcasting, which at its peak controlled 6 AM radio stations,
6 FM radio stations, and 6 TV stations. He is also the founder and owner
of Triangle Publications, which owned the Philadelphia Inquirer, the
Daily News, TV Guide and Seventeen Magazine. Received the Alfred I.
DuPont Award (Pilgrim) in 1951. Received the Marshall Field Award
(Pilgrim) in 1958. Founded The Annenberg School for Communication at The
University of Pennsylvania in 1958. Ambassador to England 1969-1974.
During his assignment to Britain, Annenberg appointed Gorden Gray as
chairman of his Triangle Broadcasting Company 1969–1975. Gray was very
big in government and intelligence since 1947, the original director of
the Psychological Strategy Board, and a heir to the R.J. Reynolds
fortune. Annenberg founded The Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Southern California in 1971. In 1988, News Corp. acquired
Triangle Publications, including TV Guide. Founder-trustee and Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho
Mirage, California. Annenberg also served as Trustee of the Eisenhower
Exchange Fellowships and the Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowships. He
was Emeritus Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia
Museum of Art, The University of Pennsylvania and The Peddie School.
Annenberg received honorary degrees from many international
universities. Annenberg was named Honorary Knight Commander of the Order
of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. He was also named Officer
of the French Legion of Honor, and presented with the Order of Merit of
the Republic of Italy. (received dozens of other awards and honors) He
was a member of the Associated Press, the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, International Press Institute, National Press Club, Overseas
Press Club, American Newspaper Publishers Association, Sigma Delta Chi,
the International Arts-Medicine Association, and the Inter-American
Press Association. Has been awarded by the ADL. A former Commander of
the United States Naval Reserve, Annenberg also was a member of the Navy
League of the U.S. He also has his own foundation, the Annenberg
Foundation. Walter Annenberg was a generous philanthropist who gave
millions to universities, art museums, charities and PBS. He was a
friend to kings and presidents. Member of the Pilgrims Society and the
1001 Club. |
| Armour, Norman |
|
1887-1982
|
Embassy secretary at
Petrograd (then the capital of Russia) 1916-1918, ambassador to Haiti
1932-1935, Canada 1935-1938, Chile 1938-1939, Argentina 1939-1944, Spain
1945, Venezuela 1950-1951 and Guatemala 1954-1955. Married European
nobility in the form of Princess Myra Kondacheff, member of the Council
on Foreign Relations. |
| Armstrong, Anne Legendre
|
|
1927-alive
|
Born in New Orleans.
Daughter of an aristocratic New Orleans coffee merchant. Graduated from
Vassar College. She married Tobin Armstrong, a Texas cattle rancher, in
1950, whom she met in 1942 on the 825,000 acre King Ranch. The King
Ranch has been home to many international power elites including Prince
Charles and Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis. Tobin was close friends
with the Bushes. She served as vice chairman of the Texas Republican
Party from 1966 to 1968. In 1971 and 1972, she was cochairman of the
Republican National Committee. As counselor to the President, Armstrong
was a member of the president's Domestic Council, the Council on Wage
and Price Stability, and the Commission on the Organization of
Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. First American woman
ambassador to Great Britain from 1976 to 1977. In 1977, Prince Charles
visited the Armstrong Ranch to play polo with Anne's husband. Director
of American Express (with Henry Kissinger and Vernon Jordan), Boise
Cascade, General Motors, and Halliburton (with Cheney). She chaired the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1982 to 1990 and
was a trustee of Southern Methodist University and the Smithsonian
Institution. She also chaired the Georgetown University's Center for
Strategic and International Studies advisory board. |
| Astor, William
Waldorf |
|
1848-1919
|
Educated in Germany
and in Italy and at the Columbia law school, member of the NY state
assembly 1878-1879, senator 1880-1881, minister to Italy 1881–1885, heir
to about 100 million dollars, reversed the family immigration by
returning to England in 1890 and bought some large real estate,
purchased the Pall Mall Gazette 1893, purchased the London Sunday
Observer 1911, was made a baron in 1916 and a viscount (of Hever) in
1917, his elder son became leader of Tory democracy, his younger son
bought a large share in The Times of London. His son, Waldorf Astor
(unconfirmed Pilgrims member), was a chairman of the Royal Institute for
International Affairs from 1935 to 1949 and had helped to establish it. |
| Astor, William
Vincent |
|
1891-1959
|
Heir of the John
Jacob Astor fortune, Franklin D. Roosevelt supporter in 1932, New Deal
supporter after WWII, director of Chase National Bank, Western Union
Telegraph Company, Great Northern Railway Company, the United States
Lines, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and other
institutions and corporations, trustee of the New York Public Library
and the New York Zoological Society, governor of New York Hospital,
staff officer in the Navy during both World Wars, seemed to have a bit
of competition from the English branch of the family. (He and his former
wives had themselves or married to Huntingtons and Whitneys) |
| Astor, (Roberta)
Brooke Russell |
|
1902-alive
|
Daughter of USMC
General John Henry Russell, wife of Vincent Astor, president Vincent
Astor Foundation from 1959 and on, which gave away about 195 million in
all, author of 2 fiction books. |
| Astor, Francis David
Langhorne |
|
1912-2001
|
Educated at Eton
College he went on to Oxford University where he suffered a nervous
breakdown and left university in 1933 without obtaining a degree,
psycho-analyzed by Anna Freud, at Oxford in 1931 he met Adam von Trott
zu Solz, later executed for the role he played in a failed assassination
of Hitler, who had a lot of influence on him, during World War II David
Astor was wounded in France, In 1936, he joined the Yorkshire Post
newspaper where he worked for a year then joined his father's newspaper,
The Observer where he would serve as editor for 27 years, He warned of
the dangers of big government and of big business, influenced by his
friend and employee of The Observer, George Orwell, he supposedly was
anti-big government, very critical of corrupt politicians, pro-blacks,
pro-life, etc, in 1977 The Observer was sold to Robert O. Anderson, the
American owner of the Atlantic Richfield oil company. (had lots of
aggressive competition) |
| Astor, Gavin |
|
1918-1984 |
2nd Baron Astor of
Hever, controlling shareholder Times Publishing Co. Ltd. This company
controlled the The Times Book Co. Ltd., Issuing House Year Book Ltd.,
St. Paul's Engineering Ltd., The Review (Insurance) Ltd., The Times
Pension Trusts Ltd., The Times London Incorporated. and The Gardeners'
Chronicle Ltd. Director Times Publishing Co. Ltd. 1952-1959, chairman
Times Publishing Co. Ltd. 1959-1966. |
| Astor, John Jacob,
8th |
|
1946-alive
|
Better known under
3rd Baron Astor of Hever, educated at Eton College, Birkshire (England),
Lieutenant in 1966 in the service of the The Life Guards, managing
director of Honon et Cie in 1982, managing director of Astor France in
1989, Deputy Lieutenant of Kent in 1996, Chief Whip of the House of
Lords 1998. Freemason. |
| Attlee, Clement
Richard |
|
1883-1967
|
Educated at Oxford,
he was called to the bar in 1905. His early experience as a social
worker in London's East End led to his decision to give up law and
devote his life to social improvement through politics. In 1907 he
joined the Fabian Society and soon afterward the Labour party. He was a
lecturer in social science at the London School of Economics, and, after
service in World War I, he became (1919) the first Labour mayor of
Stepney. Attlee entered Parliament in 1922. In 1927 he visited India as
a member of the Simon commission and was converted to views that
strongly favored Indian self-government. He joined the Labour government
in 1930 but resigned in 1931 when Ramsay MacDonald formed the National
government. As leader of the Labour party from 1935, Attlee was an
outspoken critic of Conservative foreign policy, objecting particularly
to the government's failure to intervene in the Spanish civil war.
During World War II he served (1940–45) in Winston Churchill's coalition
cabinet, and on Labour's electoral victory in 1945 he became prime
minister. Under Attlee's leadership, the Bank of England, the gas,
electricity, coal, and iron and steel industries, and the railways were
nationalized. His government also enacted considerable social reforms,
including the National Health Service. Independence was granted to Burma
(Myanmar), India, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Palestine, and
Britain allied itself closely with the United States in the cold war
confrontation with the Soviet Union. The postwar economic crisis
required stringent economic and financial controls, which reduced
support for the government. Labour won the 1950 general election by a
narrow margin, but in 1951, Attlee decided to go to the country again
and was defeated. He was leader of the opposition until his retirement
in 1955, when he received the title of Earl Attlee. |
| Bache, Jules Semon |
|
1861-1944
|
American banker and
art collector who made an enormous fortune on Wallstreet, organized the
banking firm of J. S. Bache and Company, president and treasurer of Dome
Mines Limited, director of Chrysler, Lake Superior Railroad, Louisiana
Oil Refining, Tennessee Copper & Chemical, Southern Agricultural
Company, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company, New River Collieries, Cuba
Distilling, American Indemnity, Anniston City Land, New Amsterdam
Casualty, Ann Arbor Railroad, Empire Trust Company and others, member
Council on Foreign Relations. |
| Bail, Ancell H.
|
|
unknown
|
This name was
mentioned by J. Thorkelson, U.S. Congressman from Montana, in a speech
to the U.S. House of Representatives on August 20, 1940. More info is
not available. |
| Baker, George Fisher |
|
1840-1931
|
Harvard. Fortune of
the Baker family estimated at 500 million in 1924 and later grew to
about a billion dollars. Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank,
First Security Co., and had directorships in at least 50 other
companies. Close associate of J.P. Morgan who wanted him on every board
of the companies he financed. Trustee of the Frick Collection (Frick was
an associate of Andrew Mellon and was waging a war on his
slave-workers). Donated $2,000,000 to Henry Pomeroy Davison (Pilgrim)
when he needed money for Red Cross work during WWI. One of the largest
philanthropist ever and never appeared in public. |
| Baker, George Fisher
III |
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