Sanche (Gabriel) de Gramont

1932 - 2023  (91 years)

• Name	Sanche (Gabriel) de Gramont
  	Changed his name to Ted Morgan (Christopher Long).
  Birth	30 Mar 1932	Switzerland
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Dec 2023	New York, New York USA
  	He died from complications of dementia at a nursing home in Manhattan. New York Times obituary, 14 Dec. 2023.
  Notes	Ted Morgan [Sanche Armand De Gramont], 44, b. 30 Mar 1932, residence New York, New York, was naturalized 16 Feb 1977, New York Southern District Court. Residence: New York City. Occupation: Journalist. Won Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, as Ted Morgan, on an on-stage death at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1960. See, David W. Dunlap, "Death at the Opera, and the Fog of Memory," New York Times, 23 Sep 2004. Wikipedia page Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Books of The Times - An Unusual Immigrant [review of On Becoming American]," New York Times, 11 Apr 1978, p35 [excerpt]: "And so in 1973 he moved from Tangiers to New York City with his American wife, the poet Nancy Ryan, and their son and daughter. He applied for citizenship, fulfilled his residency requirement, changed his name to Ted Morgan (the anagram of de Gramont which he chose from a list that included, among other names, O.D. Garment, Tom Danger, Rod Magnet, and R.D. Megaton, because it seemed "forthright and practical, incisive and balanced"), promised the judge who presided at his naturalization that he would renounce his title of count, and became m American."
  Person ID	I5326	Negroponte-Agelasto
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Count Gabriel (Agénor) de Gramont,   b. 02 Jun 1908, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. 09 Apr 1943, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England UK (Age 34 years)
  Mother	Mariette (Ioannis) Negroponte,   b. 09 Jun 1910, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland d. 14 Jul 1973, Brussels [Bruxelles], Belgium (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	30 Apr 1931	Saint Pierre de Chaillot, Avenue Marceau 31, Paris 16ème, Île-de-France, France
  	Sturdza says 19 Apr 1931. Marriage announced in Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 1 May 1931, p. 2.
  Family ID	F244	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Living
  Family ID	F2206	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F2307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Living
  Family ID	F2308	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Aug 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 30 Mar 1932 - Switzerland Death - 13 Dec 2023 - New York, New York USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Ted Morgan USA Naturalization