Arthur Acton

Arthur Mario Acton (1873–1953) was a British architect, art dealer and collector.

Acton married the wealthy Chicago heiress Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871–1962), whose father, was William Hamilton Mitchell (1817-1910), her inheritance came through John J. Mitchell (1853–1927), who was president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank from 1880 to 1923, then president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, from 1923 until his death.

Their elder son was the writer, scholar, and aesthete Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (1904–1994).

[2] Their younger son, William Hamilton Mitchell Acton (1906–1945), was an artist.

[2] Liana's daughter is Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale.