Family Group Sheet for Amb. Cecil Thomas Frederick Burton Lyon / Elizabeth Alice Sturgis "Elsie" Grew (F3207) m. 7 Oct 1933 : Stedman Family Genealogies

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Engagement Announcement:

ELIZABETH GREW ENGAGED TO WED
Daughter of Ambassador to Japan Betrothed to Cecil Burton Lyon.
Niece of J. P. Morgan
Fiance, Harvard Graduate, Is Third Secretary of Tokyo Embassy -- Entered Service in 1930.
TOKYO, Aug. 4 (AP).-- United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and Mrs. Grew have annouced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Grew, to Cecil Burton Lyon of New York, third secretary of the United States Embassy here.

The Wedding is expected to take place in October.

Miss Grew's father is a brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan and has been prominent in the diplomatic service of the nation for many years. He was formerly attached to the American Embassy in Berlin and in Vienna, was American Minister to Denmark and later to Switzerland, and was Under Secretary of State in President Coolidge's administration. He was Ambassador to Turkey when he was assigned to his present post. Miss Grew is a sister of Mrs. Robert English, the former Miss Anita Grew, who, in 1931, swam the length of the Bosporus from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmora.

Mr. Lyon is the son of E. Burton Lyon of this city. He was graduated from Harvard in 1927 and entered the diplomatic service three years later. At one time he was vice consul attached to the American Consulate General in Hong Kong. He recieved his present appointment in 1932. He is a member of the Racquet and Tennis Club.

Marriage Announcement:

ROYALTY AT BRIDAL OF ELSIE S. GREW
Brillant Scene in Tokyo as Ambassador's Daughter is Wed to C. B. Lyon
RITES IN NEW EMBASSY
Emporer's Brother, Leader of Aristocracy and Diplomatic Corps Witness Ceremony.
Special Cable to The New York Times
TOKYO, Oct. 7.-- Prince and Princess Chichibu, brother and sister-in-law of the Emperor; Premier and Viscountess Saito and other members of the Cabinet circle; Prince and Princess Shimazu, Marquis and Marchioness Tokugawa and many other leaders of the Japanese aristocracy, together with the entire diplomatic corps circle and several hundred guests representing international society here attended the wedding today of Miss Elsie Syrigis Grew, third daughter of Joseph C. Grew, American Ambassador to Japan, and Mrs. Grew, to Cecil Burton Lyon, son of E. Burton Lyon of New York and third secretary at the American Embassy here.

The wedding took place in the new embassy, Bishop Charles Reifsnider of the American Episcopal Mission presiding.

Bride Has One Attendant.

THe ceremony was performed in the large drawing room, which was lighted with candles and decorated with flowers.

Ambassador grew gave his daughter in marriage. Countess Van Rechteren Limburg was matron of honor and Graham Parsons, attaché of the embassy, was best man. Edwin L. Neville, couselor of the embassy, escorted Mrs. Grew.

The bride wore an ivory colored satin gown with long train. Her veil was of old family lace.

Mrs. Grew wore a gown of gray velvet.

Mrs. Stephen Crosby and Mrs. Robert Choate came from Bsoton to attend the ceremony.

Among the gifts received by the bride were a magnificent gold lacquer jewel box from the Empress, a silver vase from the dowager Empress, a lacquer cabinet from Prince and Princess Chichibu, a gold brocade box from Princess Asaka and splendid plate from the diplomatic corps. Lieut. Gen. Sadao Araki, Minister of War, and Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, Minister of the Navy, sent as a joint gift a beautiful silver flower bowl.

Bride Hast Host of Friends.

This is the first wedding of an American Ambassador's daughter to be celebrated at the embassy in Tokyo for more than twenty years. The former Miss Grew was the first débutante in more than a quarter of a century to grace the United States Embassy. She quickly made many friends in the high Japanese families, and young girls who are seldom seen in foreign society in Tokyo became attached to the embassy family circle. THey delighted in the friendship of a sympathetic American girl of their own age and in the atmosphere of a cultured and natural American home.

The bride was born in Vienna twenty-one years ago, and, as her father has been continuously engaged in the American diplomatic service, she has lived in the United States, Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland and Turkey, as well as Japan. Her education was acquired in many capitals. In the United States she studied at the Holton Arms School at Washington, and in Turkey, during her father's Ambassadorship there, at the American Woman's College in Constantinople.

Her hobbies are music and drawing. She has appeared with success at several charity concerts in Tokyo and Karuizawa, the summer home of the Ambassador and his family, and last Summer had charge of the music teaching in the Karuizawa Junior Summer School. She has studied Japanese painting. Her sports are tennis, riding and swimming.

Husbands of Sisters Diplomats.

The bride's two elder sisters are married to men in the foreign service. Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, formerly Miss Lilla Cabot Grew, is in Washington, where her husband is chief of the Western European division of the Department of State. Mrs. Robert English, formerly Miss Anita Clark Grew, lives in Budapest, where her husband is in the United States legation.

The bridegroom attended St. George's School at Newport, and was graduated from Harvard in 1927. After studying in the Foreign Service School in Washington, he entered diplomatic service in 1931. His first foreign post was in Havana.

E. Burton Lyon, his father, is an Englishman, member of an old Shropshire family. The bridegroom's mother, the former Emily Vyse, who died fifteen years ago who the family resided in Hempstead, L. I., was a member of an old New York family. Her parents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Vyse, who at one time had a large estate in West Farms. Vyse Avenue in the Bronx was named after her family. The late Mrs. Lyon was a cousin of the late Mrs. Frederic Neilson of New York and Newport.

Family: Amb. Cecil Thomas Frederick Burton Lyon / Elizabeth Alice Sturgis "Elsie" Grew (F3207)