[2] He was a great-nephew of General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1883–1953), a four star-general who was the hero of Bataan and commander of the U.S. forces in the Philippines during World War II.

[3] In 1927, his family moved to East Hampton, New York where they built an imposing house called "Gulf Crest," that was valued at $350,000 in 1937.

[8] On January 30, 1942, at the age of 20, he left Yale and enlisted as a private in the United States Army.

[9] He returned to the U.S. on June 10, 1945, and spent the last three months of his service as an adviser on intelligence coordination in the War Department in Washington, D.C.

Afterwards, he resumed the practice of law with the firm Battle, Fowler, Lidstone, Jaffin, Pierce & Kheel.

[18][19] Before their divorce, they were the parents of:[5] Until his death he was a resident of Wainscott, New York and lived on Georgica Pond,[5] a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the South Fork of Long Island.