Anthony Quentin Devereux ’51

Tony was born June 19, 1929, in Utica, N.Y., to Nicholas and Anne Quinlan Devereux.

He came to us from Middlesex School. At Princeton Tony was a history major and president of the Bridge Club. He belonged to Quadrangle and Whig-Clio and graduated with honors. He earned a law degree from Harvard in 1954 and then was drafted and served for two years in the Army.

Tony was an associate at the New York law firm of Gifford, Woody, Carter and Hays until 1961 when he joined the management team at Oneita Knitting Mills, his family’s textile firm, which was then located in Andrews, S.C. He left Oneita in 1984 to open a law practice in Pawleys Island, S.C.

Tony and Monica Overton were married in 1974; Diane Spalding was his stepdaughter. He and Monica were divorced in 1980.

Tony was a lifelong bridge player and Sapphire Life Master (a life master with 4500 points). He was also the published author of The Rice Princes and The Life and Times of Robert F.W. Allston.

Tony died June 16, 2017, in Pawleys Island. He was predeceased by his brothers, Nicholas and Robert, and his sister, Margaret Halberstadt. His burial was in St. Agnes Cemetery in Utica.