Thomas Dimock Leonard Jr. ’27

TOM DIED Aug. 28, 1990. For many years he lived in Southampton, L.I., and was happily busy as an architectural and industrial photographer in N.Y.C. To him the business was also a hobby and a pastime, and left him the leisure to write for publication, to serve as a trustee of Southampton's Parrish Art Museum, and to associate with the Architectural League of New York. He relished society, especially at the Union and Racquet and Tennis Clubs, the Saint Nicholas Society, and Squadron A. A lifelong, devout Episcopalian, he faithfully attended services at New York's Trinity Church and at St. John's, Southampton. Patriotism was a strong trait and led him into the New York Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the American Revolution, If asked about his political leaning, he forthrightly said, "Unreconstructed Conservative," period. He was a perfect model for the popular image of the wealthy, suburban, AngloAmerican aristocrat.

Tom was twice married. First to Thecla A. C. Mordaunt Barker, in 1931, in London, and second to Elizabeth A, Kolbert, in 1941, at Keyser's Ridge, Md. His daughter by his first wife, Margaret Mordaunt Leonard, studied at the Paris Sorbonne in 1958 and died in 1959. She had a daughter, Marie Christine Pinoteau. By his second wife, Tom had three sons: Thomas D. III, named for his grandfather, Thomas D. Leonard 1890; Nicholas A.; and Anthony Norton. The Class extends its sympathy to the family.

The Class of 1927