GEORGE WASHINGTON

Evening Star, Issue 23355, 26 August 1939, Page 11

GEORGE WASHINGTON

RELATED TO QUEEN ELIZABETH His second cousin six times removed, Queen Elizabeth is probably the nearest living relative to George Washington, states an English writer. This revelation is the result of a long research by Mr Antony Wagner, Portcullis in the College of Arms in London, who is on his way back to England from the United States. He has compiled a genealogical table showing the Queen to be distinctly related to General Robert E. Lee as well as George Washington. This table is to be published in the ‘ New Record,’ the official organ of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Mr Wagner prepared the Washington family tree that is being exhibited in the British Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. This shows that George Washington was a descendant of King John.

Mr Wagner’s secretary at the College of Arms told me; “ It has been the practice for genealogists to concentrate only on the male side of a family.” Some years ago Mr Wagner began to search the records of the female side of certain well-known families, with the most amazing results. “ It was as the result of this new method of research that he discovered that the Queen is probably the nearest living relative of George Washington.” The connection is traced abck to Colonel Augustine Warner, whose daughter married Lawrence Washington. who was the grandfather of George Washington.