Richard F. McCready Jr. ’63

Dick, an estate lawyer and banker in Winchester, Ky., died Aug. 22, 2011, in Charleston, S.C., from complications of a bacterial infection.

Dick came to Princeton from Sewanee Military Academy, where he was salutatorian. He ate at Campus Club, roomed with Charles Marshall and Paul DuPont, and
graduated cum laude in history. After the University of Virginia law school he was a trust and estate lawyer for 10 years in Manhattan at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

An unfailingly kind man of integrity, intellect, and wit, Dick was an optimist whose proudest accomplishments included helping local businesses and institutions. He moved back home to practice law in 1977 (his Kentucky roots extended to colonial Fort Boonesborough), and after a decade he succeeded his father as president of Winchester Federal Bank.

His passions included tennis (his family called him a “slice-serve king”) and rowing, which began on Princeton’s heavyweight crew and continued while he was earning a master of laws degree at the University of London. He was the first American to row in the first boat at King’s College, losing the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley by less than a boat length.

The class shares its sadness with his wife, Jane; daughters Sarah Boston and Louise Hart; sons-in-law Hugh C. Boston III and Lewis J. Hart III; and grandson Richard Boston.