 A noted horseman, he was the first president and one of the founders (along with his friend DeLancey Astor Kane) of The Coaching Club in 1876, the pioneer coaching club, serving until 1896.He was also one of the earliest members of the Westminster Polo Club and serving as president of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club in Long Island.He was a member of the City Club, the Century Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the Sons of the Revolution, the New-York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and former president of The Huguenot Society of America.