Peter Frelinghuysen ’63

Peter died March 11, 2018, at home in New York City. A third-generation Princetonian and the son and brother of congressmen, he was a man of charm and talent — attorney, chair of medical and musical institutions, and expert gardener.

After growing up in Morristown, N.J., and attending St. Mark’s School, Peter came to Princeton and majored in English, played freshman hockey, ate at Colonial, wryly observed the wonderland of college life, and fittingly wrote his thesis on Lewis Carroll. Following Yale Law School, Army Reserve, and Sullivan & Cromwell, he was a longtime partner at Morris & McVeigh.

Peter poured his passion for music into the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as board chairman for more than a decade, and into Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where as a director he was integral to its renovation. As chairman, Peter helped expand the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. This past trustee of the New York Horticultural Society was often up to his elbows in the dirt of Beaverkill Valley, raising vegetables for family and friends.

Peter is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barrett; children Peter ’89, Bess, Cyrus ’96, and Anson; 10 grandchildren; and siblings Beatrice van Roijen, Rodney, Adaline, and Frederick ’75.