| Alexander B. Britton | |
| Birth Date: | January 1, 1867 |
| Birth Place: | Washington D.C. |
| Death Place: | Chevy Chase, Maryland |
| Occupation: | Attorney |
| Alma Mater: | Princeton University George Washington University Law School |
| Parents: | Alexander Thompson Britton Mary Crandall Wilcox |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | Princess Catherine of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Margaret Rusk |
Alexander B. Britton (January 1, 1867 – June 24, 1926) was an American lawyer with the firm Britton & Gray.
Britton was born in Washington D.C. on January 1, 1867. He was a son of Col. Alexander Thompson Britton (1835–1899) and Mary Crandall Wilcox (1833–1868). Among his siblings were Susan Britton (wife of Jesse Bright Ould), Mary Heins "Daisy" Britton, and Belle Britton (wife of Walter Allan Galt). After his mother's death in 1868, his father married Mary Ann Martin in 1869.[1] From his father's second marriage, Alexander had several half-siblings, including Martin Britton (who married Susan Felicia Kirby), William Lee Britton (who married Mayday Louise Walker), Sadie Britton (wife of Joseph Nelson Thompson),[1] and Flora Britton (wife of Arthur Dudley Carpenter).[2]
His paternal grandparents were Alexander Britton and Susan (Towers) Britton of New York City.[1] His maternal grandparents were Isaac Wilcox Jr. and Clarissa Richmond (Brownell) Wilcox of Providence, Rhode Island.[3]
Britton attended Princeton University before attending law school at Columbian University (today known as George Washington University).
Britton joined the law firm started by his father in 1864,[4] eventually becoming senior partner. Like his father before him, Britton was considered a leader of the Washington bar and was a member of the Washington Board of Trade.
He was a director of the Federal-American National Bank and the Merchants' Transfer and Storage Company, and served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Capital Garage Company.
A prominent club man, Britton served as president, and a member of the Board of Governors, of the Chevy Chase Club in Maryland. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Club, the Racquet Club, and the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club.
On October 23, 1889, Britton married Louise Schneider Reed (1869–1917), a daughter of William Bushrod Reed and Catharine Augusta Schneider.[5] Before her death on January 23, 1917, they were the parents of:
After his first wife's death, shortly after their eldest daughter's wedding to Prince Alfred, Britton married Marjorie (Savin) Pilson (1891–1951) on December 1, 1923, at his home at Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was previously married to Edward H. Pilson. From her first marriage, she was the mother of Marjorie (née Pilson) Faust, Elaine (née Pilson) Castle, and Nancy (née Pilson) Hawkins).
Britton died on June 24, 1926, in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington.[11] After his death, his widow married Count Ippolito Salvoni of Florence, Italy on June 21, 1927.[12]
Through his daughter Catherine, he was a grandfather of Prince Alexander Konrad of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1918–1984), who married Margaret Boyce Schulze in 1939 (a granddaughter of industrialist William Boyce Thompson and stepdaughter of Ambassador Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., they divorced and Margaret married singer Morton Downey);[13] [14] and Prince Konrad Maximilian Alfred of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1919–1943), who married Ladislaja Mayr von Melnhof (after his death she married Count Johann Jakob Eltz).[15] [16]