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Rachel Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. Mellon was the second wife of philanthropist and horse breeder Paul Mellon. ==Background== Rachel Lowe Lambert, nicknamed Bunny by her mother, was the eldest child of Gerard Barnes Lambert, president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and a founder of Warner–Lambert, and his wife, Rachel Parkhill Lambert (née Lowe). Her paternal grandfather, chemist Jordan Lambert, was the inventor of Listerine, which was later marketed by her father. She had two siblings: Gerard Barnes Lambert, Jr. (1912–1947; married Elsa Cover), who died in a 1947 plane crash, and Lily McCarthy (1914–2006; married twice, to William Wilson Fleming and John Gilman McCarthy, respectively). Lambert attended Miss Fine’s School, Princeton, New Jersey and the Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Virginia. Her parents divorced in 1933, and both subsequently remarried: her mother in 1934 to her former brother-in-law, Dr. Malvern Bryan Clopton, and her father in 1936 to Grace Cleveland Lansing Mull, daughter of Henry Livingston Lansing. Lambert married Stacy Barcroft Lloyd, Jr. in Philadelphia in 1932. Lloyd served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. They divorced in 1948. They had two children: Stacy Barcroft Lloyd III, and Eliza Winn Lloyd.〔Later in life, after her divorce, Eliza Winn Lloyd used the name Eliza Lambert Lloyd, but her wedding announcement in ''The New York Times'' in 1968 called her ''Eliza W. Lloyd'', and news articles about her coming out in 1961 referred to her as Eliza Winn Lloyd. Her obituary in ''The New York Times'', however, referred to her as Eliza Lloyd Moore.〕 Lambert and her husband became close friends of the banking heir and art collector Paul Mellon and his first wife, Mary Conover, who died of an asthma attack in 1946. After Bunny divorced Lloyd, she and Paul were married, on May 1, 1948.〔 By this marriage, she became the stepmother of Timothy Mellon and Catherine Conover Mellon (later Mrs. John Warner and now known as Catherine Conover). Together the couple collected and donated more than a thousand works of art, mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings, to the National Gallery of Art and established the Yale Center for British Art.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://britishart.yale.edu/about-us/paul-mellon-foundeR )〕 The couple bred and raced thoroughbred horses, including Sea Hero, winner of the 1993 Kentucky Derby.〔(''Paul Mellon: In his Own Words'' ); accessed June 5, 2012.〕 Mellon was long known for her maximal discretion and minimal public exposure; she offered only a handful of interviews to journalists in her lifetime.〔 In a 1969 ''New York Times'' article with the Mellons, she proclaimed that "nothing should be noticed."〔 Although this remark was made in reference to garden design, it has frequently been taken to encapsulate her attitude toward personal privacy and lifestyle choices. 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「Rachel Lambert Mellon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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