Like all boys, Bob was also prone to playing pranks – like the time his mother was having a cocktail party on the lawn and he took the water hose, breaking up the party by squirting water on the maids. His brother, David Jnr was destined to marry Princess Dolly Obolinsky, a White Russian emegré and socialite from New York.
His sister, named Peggy after her mother, was to break off her engagement to Simon Baring, a member of the London banking family to marry Alexander Abel-Smith, also of London.
He took me fishing and hunting, taught me to shoot.’ Through my family I got to know one of the wardens on the estate. ‘One of the Vanderbilt estates is located at Asheville. ‘I grew up in a sort of protective society, you know, we had nurses to take care of me and all that sort of thing.’ That did not stop him from doing all the things that boys everywhere like to do.
Serial# O-430609: Morgan, Robert Knight – pilot.īorn on July 31st 1918 in Asheville, North Carolina, the third child of David Bradley Morgan and Mabel K Morgan, from the very beginning Robert Knight Morgan had a lot of things going for him.
