Mary Wilson Goelet

[2] May and her siblings were known in society as "the marrying Wilsons" due to their marriages to the wealthiest and most prominent families of the day.

[7] May was known as one of the viceregal leaders of the Ultra-fashionable 150, among Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.[8] May and Ogden owned a townhouse at 608 Fifth Avenue (located on the southwest corner of 49th and Fifth) in New York City,[9] around the corner from a second house at 4 West 49th Street.

[11] After her death, her son, acknowledging the change in the neighborhood from residential to commercial, tore down the family home in New York City and commissioned Victor L.S.

The home was built at a cost of $4.5 million and was the second largest mansion in Newport after nearby The Breakers, both designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt.

[16] Together, they were the parents of two children:[17] May's husband died in 1897 aboard his yacht in the town of Cowes in the Isle of Wight after over five years spent abroad.

The childless marriage ended in divorce in 1953,[29] and in 1954, he remarried to Margaret Elizabeth McConnel,[30] with whom he had two children, Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (b.