Bayard Schieffelin (New York City, April 16, 1903 – Short Hills, New Jersey, April 6, 1989), was an American businessman, philanthropist, officer in the War Department during World War II, and director of the New York Public Library (1950–1968).
He was born in Manhattan and grew up in the house on 5 East 66th Street (the building is owned by the Lotos Club since 1947).
The Bayards and Jays fled their oppression as Protestants in France, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by King Louis XIV in 1685.
[1][2] Bayard Schieffelin married Virginia Langdon Loomis from New York in 1934.
[1] Bayard Schieffelin graduated from Groton School and from Yale University in 1926.