Anne Mills Archbold
American philanthropist (1873–1968) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne Mills Archbold (November 24, 1873 – March 26, 1968) was an American heiress, big game hunter and philanthropist. Her father was the wealthy oil tycoon John Dustin Archbold and Archbold traveled extensively including to study in Paris and Florence. In 1903 she commissioned an unusual house in Bar Harbor, Maine, inspired by Tuscan villas. She married Armar Dayrolles Saunderson, son of British politician Edward James Saunderson, in 1906 having met in Tibet and had a short engagement. The couple had four children and Archbold became a keen hunter, donating trophies to several natural history museums.
Archbold separated from Saunderson in 1922, fleeing Britain on a Standard Oil steamship with her children, who had been made wards of court. After a divorce settlement, Archbold gave her English estate, Foxlease, to the Girl Guides. She settled in Washington, D.C., and became active in women's rights, as a member of the National Woman's Party and a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. She made donations to hospitals and social welfare programs and in 1924, with banker Charles C. Glover, she donated 100 acres (40 ha) of land to the National Capital Planning Commission; this became Glover-Archbold Park. Archbold fought several legal campaigns to save the park from highway development.