Philip George Schuyler (June 20, 1836 – November 19, 1906) was a soldier, clubman, philanthropist, and prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age.

[2] His parents were cousins through their shared Schuyler ancestry as his maternal great-grandmother was his paternal grandfather's sister.

[3] After his mother died in 1863, his father married Mary Morris Hamilton (1815-1877), his former wife's sister.

[8] Schuyler was a prominent society figure who was featured in Ward McAllister's famous "Four Hundred".

[12] Through her father, she was a descendant of Rawlins Lowndes, the Governor of South Carolina, and through her mother, she was the granddaughter of Maturin Livingston, Recorder of New York City and a member of the prominent Livingston family.

[15] His funeral was attended by many prominent citizens of the time, including J. Pierpont Morgan, Alexander Hamilton III, Joseph H. Choate, Ogden Mills, Gerald Hoyt, and Coleman Drayton.