Winthrop Gardiner Jr.

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Winthrop Gardiner Jr.
Died 1980 (aged 66–67)
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Manhattan
Nationality USA
Occupation executive
Known for Briefly owned historic Gardiners Island

Winthrop Gardiner Jr. was a member of the family which received a royal grant of historic Gardiners Island in 1639.[1] In 1936, he inherited the Island. Within a year he sold it to Sarah Diodati Gardiner, who The New York Times described as a "distant cousin".

Gardiner worked as an executive at the Industrial Tape Company.[2]

Gardiner married six times, and was divorcing Nancy Wakeman when he died of cancer.[1] He was married to his fourth wife, Sonia Henie, an Olympic ice skating champion from 1949 through 1956.[2]

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  2. 2.0 2.1 "Sonja Henie, Famous Skater, Weds Winthrop Gardiner Jr., Executive". The New York Times: p. 36. 1949-09-16. https://www.nytimes.com/1949/09/16/archives/sonja-henie-famous-skater-weds-winthrop-gardiner-jr-executive.html?searchResultPosition=2. Retrieved 2020-09-16. "Mr Gardiner, who is 36, the son of Mr and Mrs Winthrop Gardiner of East Hampton, Long Island, had three previous marriages." 

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