Robert Kerr Richards (August 26, 1834 – December 31, 1924) was an American who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.
[3][4] Another uncle, Timothy Pickering Richards was married to Agnes Treat Lamb, the sister of his aunt Matilda.
[6] Richards attended Yale University, where he was a member of the Sigma chapter of Delta Psi fraternity, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Tau Chapter of Delta Psi Fraternity.
[12] Richards had a home in Bayside on Long Island known as Greenoak Farm.
[14] His funeral was held at St. James's Chapel at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and he was buried at Grace Episcopal Churchyard in Queens.