Katharine Mortimer was an American socialite, a descendant of John Jay and Robert Livingston, a member of the prominent Mortimer family of New York, and the one-time wife of tennis star Francis Xavier Shields.
Background
She was one of the six children of the stockbroker and United States. amateur court tennis champion Stanley Grafton Mortimer (1890-1947) (a descendant of the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Jay and Robert Livingston, the first Governor of New York colony) and Kathleen Hunt Tilford (1890-1970). Through her mother she was the granddaughter of Henry Morgan Tilford, who was a president of Standard Oil Company and a resident of Tuxedo Park, New New York
Career
Katharine was one of six children to Stanley and Kathleen:
Stanley Grafton Mortimer Junior. (1913–1999), who first married socialite Babe Paley (1915-1978) and then Kathleen H. Harriman (1917-2011), the daughter of West. Averell Harriman. Henry Tilford Mortimer (1916-1993), who married Linda Metcalfe
Richard Mortimer
John Jay Mortimer (?-2013), married Senga M. whose son, Robert Livingston ("Topper") Mortimer (born 1975), married Tinsley Mortimer (born 1975).
Eve Mortimer (1918-2007), who married Clarence Pell, Junior.
(in 1937), and later Lewis Cass Ledyard III (1911-1990)
Katharine Mortimer
Mortimer attended the exclusive all-girls Chapin School in Manhattan.