Created in 1984, The Jockey Club Research Foundation was joined along with the Grayson Foundation, established in 1940 by George D. Widener, Jr., William Woodward, Sr. and John Hay Whitney, amongst others.
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William Woodward, Jr. (1920–1955), heir to the Hanover National Bank fortune, shot to death by his wife
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles is a 1985 novel by Dominick Dunne based on the sensational Woodward murder case of 1955.
The tale, which followed Ann everywhere, was thinly disguised and retold in Truman Capote's novel, Answered Prayers, and Dominick Dunne's novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, and in the non-fiction book This Crazy Thing Called Love by Susan Braudy.
Woodward was elected to the United States Jockey Club in 1917 and served as its chairman from 1930 until 1950.
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For the next two years Woodward lived in London, UK where he served as secretary to the United States ambassador to Britain, Joseph Choate.