Alexandra Gardiner Creel

Alexandra Gardiner Creel was a member of the Gardiner family, who were prominent bankers, and land owners, known for their ownership of Gardiners Island off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.[1][2] , Her father died in 1918, when she was eight years old, leaving $1,000,000 in trust to raise her and her older brother, Robert David Lion Gardiner.[3] In 1921 her mother went to court to challenge the terms of the trust, claiming she was not able to maintain her children with the funds the managers released.

Alexandra Gardiner Creel
Died1910 (aged -81–-80)
NationalityUSA
Other names
  • Alexandra Diodati Gardiner
  • Alexandra Diodati Gardiner Creel
Known forHeiress to historic Gardiners Island

The New York Times reported that she married James Randall Creel in a quiet ceremony, without informing her family.[3] They reported her mother confronted the minister who performed the marriage, and grew so upset she had to be calmed by the Chief of Police.

Her aunt Sarah Diodati Gardiner, who had purchased Gardiners Island from her cousin Winthrop Gardiner Jr., in 1936, created a trust so she could leave the island to her and her brother, Robert David Lion Gardiner.[4] The trust would pay the taxes and costs to maintain the property, but the terms of the trust did not allow them to sell the Island. Alexandra and Robert became the beneficiaries of the trust upon her death, in January 1953.

Her death left a long-running dispute between her brother and her daughter, Alexandra Creel Goelet, over the future of the island, which the Gardiner family first acquired in a manorial grant from the King of England in 1639.[1][2]

References
  1. Dinitia Smith (1989-06-05). "The blue-blood feud over Gardiner's Island: Wasp's Nest". New York Magazine. pp. 30–39. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. "A. Gardiner Creel, 80, Island's Co-owner, Dies". The New York Times. 1990-12-18. p. D21. Retrieved 2020-09-15. Her death may send Gardiners Island back into the courts. Mr. Gardiner, the island's other owner, and Mrs. Creel's daughter, Alexandra Gardiner Creel Goelet of Manhattan, have been arguing for the past decade over zoning and other environmental issues on the island.
  3. "MISS A.D. GARDINER IS WED IN SECRET; Mother Protests Marriage of Park Av. Girl to James Randall Creel. VISITS GARDEN CITY CHURCH Dean Who Performed Ceremony Calls for Police Aid to Calm Society Leader". The New York Times. 1932-06-12. p. 14.
  4. "2 New Heirs Continue 4th Century of Gardiners As Owners of Island, Once Haunt of Captain Kidd: Miss Sarah Diodati Gardiner Bequeaths Historic Estate to Nephew and Niece Royal Grant of 3,300 Acres Held by Family Since 1639, When Indians Sold It". The New York Times. 1953-01-13. p. 29. Retrieved 2020-09-21. Gardiners Island, the historic, 3,300-acre piece of land that lies between the forked, eastern tips of Long Island, has been willed to a niece and a nephew of Miss Sarah Diodati Gardiner, the fifteenth proprietor of the island, who died last Monday at the age of 90.
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