of World War II, Lamont made a very substantial donation toward restoring Canterbury Cathedral in England. His widow, Florence Haskell Corliss donated Torrey Cliff, their weekend residence overlooking the Hudson River in Palisades, New York, to Columbia University. It is now the site of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory. Upon Florence's death, a bequest established the Lamont Poetry Prize. Death Lamont died in Boca Grande, Florida, in 1948. Personal life In 1895, Lamont married Florence Haskell Corliss. Born Englewood, NJ in 1873, Florence graduated from Smith College in 1893 and received an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University. Thomas and Florence had 4 children. Their son, Corliss, was a philosophy professor at Columbia University and an avowed socialist. Another son, Thomas Stilwell Lamont, was later vice-chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust and a fellow of the Harvard Corporation. One of his grandsons, Lansing Lamont, was a reporter with Time from 1961 to 1974. He published several books, including You Must Remember This: A Reporter’s Odyssey from Camelot to Glasnost about his experiences covering the important events of the time, including the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Another grandson, Thomas William Lamont II, served in the submarine service on the and died when the submarine sank in April 1945. One of his great-grandsons, Ned Lamont, was elected governor of Connecticut in 2018. In popular culture Lamont is a major character in Nomi Prins' novel Black Tuesday (2011) and in Kit Holland's Soul Slip Peak (2013). Works Henry P. Davison; the record of a useful life Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1933. My boyhood in a parsonage, some brief sketches of American life toward the close of the last century Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1946. Across world frontiers, Harcort Brace & Co., New York, 1951. References Further reading Jones, Kenneth Paul, ed. U.S. Diplomats in Europe, 1919–41 (ABC-CLIO. 1981) online on Lamont's role in Europe, pp 5–24. Lamont, Edward M. The Ambassador from Wall Street. The Story of Thomas W. Lamont, J.P. Morgan's Chief Executive. A Biography. Lanham MD: Madison Books, 1994. Lundberg, Ferdinand. America's Sixty Families. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. Archives and records Thomas W. Lamont papers at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School. Lamont-Corliss Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. External links 1870 births 1948 deaths American bankers Boston Daily Advertiser people The Harvard Crimson people Harvard College alumni House of Morgan JPMorgan Chase