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Jane Engelhard (August 12, 1917 – February 29, 2004), born Marie Antoinette Jeanne Reiss,〔"Ex-Shanghai Girl Helps Straighten Bank Affairs", ''The China Monthly Review'', 1939〕 was an American philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., as well as her donation of an elaborate 18th-century Neapolitan crêche to the White House in 1967. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1972.〔(''Vanity Fair'' )〕 ==Family and early life== Born in Qingdao, China, she was a daughter of Hugo Reiss (1879-?), a prominent Shanghai-based, German-born Jewish businessman who was an executive at his family's British fabric-and-small-arms wholesale firm, G. Reiss & Co. Ltd. and served as Brazil's consul in Shanghai.〔Reiss later opened his own successor firm, Hugo Reiss & Co., based in Shanghai, where he was founder and managing director and which was a contractor to the Chinese government. He was also secretary of the Senawang Rubber Estates Co., Ltd. and a vice-president of Anderson, Meyer & Co. (which helped established General Electric in China. He also was on the board of directors of The China Press, an American newspaper in China, and the Shanghai Tannery Co.〕〔According to a passenger manifest of the S.S. Berengaria, dated 10 October 1924, Hugo Reiss (his own spelling of his surname) declared himself to be 44 years old, born in Michelfeld, Germany, of Hebrew "Race or People," a naturalized Brazilian citizen, and a resident of Shanghai. He described himself as the Brazilian consul in Shanghai and gave his American address as c/o of his brothers, Julius H. and Ben Reiss, whose offices were at 894-900 Broadway, New York City. He also cited the address of a cousin, Sidney Reiss, Wilbraham Road, Manchester, England. See www.ellisisland.org.〕 Her mother, Ignatia Mary Valerie Murphy (1891/93-1965), was an Irish Roman Catholic native of San Francisco, California.〔Gross, Michael (Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) p. 379〕〔A portrait photograph of Mary Murphy Reiss by Arnold Genthe is in the AMICO Public Collection of the Library of Congress, dated 30 October 1919. Its identification number is LC-G432-3060.〕 She had two sisters by her parents' marriage: Barry Jeanette Reiss-Brian (1914-1970), and Huguette Madeleine Reiss-Brian (1916-1994, married Major Rupert Charles Frederick Gerard, then Lawrence Hoguet; mother of 5th Baron Gerard of Bryn). Her mother later married French citizen Guy Louis Albert Brian (1891-) and had two daughters: Marie-Brigitte Brian (1928-, Countess Bernard de La Rochefoucauld)〔Michael Gross, ''Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals'' (Random House, 2010), page 284〕 and Patricia "Bébé" Brian (1930-, Madame Jacques Bemberg). Her maiden surname has been variously been published as Reis, Reiss, Pinto Reis, Pinto-Reis Brian or Reiss-Brian. All five daughters were raised as Catholics, with the three Reiss girls spending their infancy and early childhood in Shanghai, China. After Mary Reiss divorced Hugo Reiss and married Guy Brian, the family lived in Paris, and Jane graduated from the Convent des Oiseaux, a fashionable Catholic school in Neuilly, France; its alumni included the future Vietnamese empress Nam Phuong.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane Engelhard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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