Edward Coleman Delafield (July 10, 1878 – April 21, 1976) was an American banker and soldier who served as president of the Bank of America.
[9] From 1946 to 1968 Delafield was the Treasurer and a member of the board of trustees of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases later known as the Sloan-Kettering Institute.
At the wedding, his brother, Joseph L. Delafield, was the best man, and ushers were his brother, J. Ross Delafield, his wife's cousin Percy Rivington Pyne II, Alexander M. Hadden, Princeton tennis star Mercer Beasley, III and Robert Southard.
[17] Clelia, a college friend of his daughter Margaretta, was the daughter of Baroness Rachele Maria Carolina "Carina" (née de Saint Seigne) Benjamin of Florence and Walter Romeyn Benjamin, publisher of The Collector, a journal of autographs and history.
Through his daughter Mary,[16] he was a grandfather Albert Ludlow Kramer III, the Secretary of State of Washington from 1965 to 1975.