Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone (the "father of Irish Republicanism"): his great-great-great-great-grandfather John was a first cousin of Peter Tone, whose eldest son was Wolfe Tone.
==Zgodnje življenje==Rodil se je leta 1905 pod imenom Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone, kot najmlajši sin dr. Franka Jeroma Toneja, premožnega predsednika podjetja Carborundum Company, in njegove socialno angažirane žene Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot.