Robert Gould Shaw II (sometimes referred to as RGS II) (June 16, 1872 – March 29, 1930) was a wealthy landowner, international polo player of the Myopia Hunt Club and socialite of the leisure class in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts. He was one of the prominent figures of the boom years at the turn of the century, sometimes called the Gilded Age. Born in 1872 into one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Boston, he was a first cousin of Robert Gould Shaw. As an adult, RGS II gained a reputation for alcohol abuse and promiscuity. His first wife was Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and they had a son, Robert Gould Shaw III (called RGS III or "Bobby"). RGS II and Langhorne divorced after four years of marriage. She moved to England after some time, where she met and married Waldorf Astor, who later succeeded his father as Viscount. RGS II married again and had four other sons, including Louis Agassiz Shaw II. Both of these sons suffered from depression, alcoholism, and legal difficulties. Bobby was arrested in England for homosexuality, and committed suicide in 1970. Louis Agassiz Shaw II murdered his maid in 1964. He was determined to be unfit for trial and was remanded instead to McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital where he resided for nearly the rest of his life. Early life RGS II was the youngest child of Quincy Adams Shaw and Pauline (née Agassiz) Shaw. Quincy was one of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts as a result of his investment in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company. RGS II's four older siblings were Louis, Pauline, Marian, and Quincy Jr. Quincy's side of the family had Anglo-American roots extending back to passengers on the Mayflower. His paternal grandparents were Robert G. Shaw and Elizabeth Willard (née Parkman) Shaw. His maternal grandfather, Louis Agassiz, was a prominent paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist, and scholar of the Earth's natural history who immigrated from Switzerland in 1846. Shaw's relatives included granduncle George Parkman (who was killed by John White Webster in a highly publicized case), first cousin (once removed) Francis Parkman Jr. (a noted American historian and author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life), uncle Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (who served as president of Calumet and Hecla Mining Company and president of the National Academy of Sciences), cousin Rodolphe Louis Agassiz (a ten goal polo