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John "Archie" Armstrong Chaloner (born as John Armstrong Chanler in 1862 in New York City, died 1935 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American writer and activist, known for his catch phrase "Who's looney now?". ==Biography== Chaloner was born John Armstrong Chanler on October 10, 1862 to Margaret Astor Ward Chanler and John Winthrop Chanler. He was related to the elite Astor, Livingston, and Stuyvesant families. He received some schooling in England and later returned to the United States, where he received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at Columbia University. Chaloner went on study at the Collège de France and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques.〔 Chaloner's parents died in the late 1870s and on June 1, 1908 he registered to have his last name legally changed from "Chanler" to Chaloner, which is believed to have been the surname's original spelling. On June 14, 1888 he married the author Amélie Louise Rives. The marriage was considered scandalous by Chaloner's family, who disapproved of her due to erotic passages in her book ''The Quick or the Dead? A Study''--especially as one of the characters greatly resembled Chaloner.〔 Chaloner's marriage to Rives was notoriously unhappy and in 1895 Rives sought and was successfully granted a divorce in South Dakota. Rives re-married only months later to Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and Chaloner further scandalized his family by purchasing Merry Mills, the estate near the Troubetzkoys' home in Albemarle County, Virginia.〔 Chaloner became close friends with the Troubetzkoys and also continued to pay Rives a yearly sum of money--events that caused his brother Robert Winthrop Chanler to call him a "looney".〔 This statement would later prompt Chaloner to send a telegram to Robert and the press following him signing a poorly thought out prenup with Lina Cavalieri, reading "Who's looney now?".〔 Chaloner helped found Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina,〔 where he successfully built an electric power-generating station and a cotton mill. Later in his life his erratic behavior caused his family to have him declared legally insane, a measure that estranged him from his family until 1919, when the family reconciled. Chaloner was highly philanthropic where education was concerned and around 1890 established the Paris Prize Fund, later renamed the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation in 1917.〔 Chaloner died on June 1, 1935 in Charlottesville, Virginia of cancer. 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「John Armstrong Chaloner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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