Angier St George Biddle Duke (1937 - 2014)

Born 5 Nov 1937 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Died 8 Oct 2014 at age 76 in Stillwater, Montana, United States

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Biography

Angier was born in 1937. He was the son of ambassador Angier Duke Priscilla Avenel St. George.

He married, firstly, Jeanne S. Farmer in 1959. Children of Angier St. George Biddle Duke and Jeanne S. Farmer

George St. George Duke b. 1960 Benjamin Buchanan Duke b. 1963

He married, secondly, Mary Ellen Haga, daughter of Ora Cecil Haga.

He passed away in 2014.

Pony was born in New York City on Nov. 5, 1937, at City Hospital, the only son of Angier Biddle Duke and Priscilla St. George. He went to the happy hunting grounds on Oct. 8, 2014, as the oldest living descendant of Washington Duke (endower and namesake of Duke University). He was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s third cousin and a direct descendant of St. George, the patron saint of England.

He spent the first 18 years of his life divided equally between the shores of Long Island in spring and winter and the Flying H ranch at the head of the Shoshone River in northwest Wyoming, which his parents owned in the ’40s and ’50s. It was there on mountain pack trips and at summer square dances that he developed his love of the mountains, the West and the outdoors.

Pony had a wild and successful career on Wall Street during the big bull market of the ’60s before moving his children out to Cody, Wyo., in 1967, so they too could grow up there. From that time until he moved to North Carolina briefly in the ’80s, he was a famous and colorful elk hunting guide on the upper Greybull river and surrounding valleys.

In 1971, he met the love of his life, Mary Ellen Haga, who became his wife in 1973 to the present day, his soul mate and darling companion.

Upon his return to the West in Montana in 1987, he embarked on a successful business career in the sale of fine arts, aerospace design and ultimately the energy business, specifically oil and gas exploration and production.

He particularly loved bird hunting in the latter half of his life and good bird dogs. He gave up big-game hunting but loved to fish in the mountains and on his stretch of the Stillwater River. Breakfasts at the Railside diner followed by pheasant hunts around Broadview and Lavina were mandatory on fall weekends. Once he purchased the ranch near Edgar, the action moved to the Clark’s fork of the Yellowstone River and jolly dinners at the Edgar Bar. Pheasants feared him and trout respected him, and above all else he wanted to be remembered as a hunter, sportsman and outdoorsman.

He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Ellen; and his boys, Ben (Tatyanna) and George; brothers, Biddle Duke and Dario Duke; sisters, Katharine Selznick and Marilu Duke Cluett; as well as his grandchildren, Maud, Leo, Lucy, Nellie and Boris; and a whole lot of horses

Sources

• Find a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137311881/angier_st_george-biddle-duke

http://thepeerage.com/p56875.htm#i568746