page_title: Robert Early Strawbridge Jr.
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Early Strawbridge Jr. / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Mrs. Theodore P. Grosvenor (née Anita Strawbridge, 1901-1987)
context_page_description: Robert Early Strawbridge Jr. was an American polo champion and chairman of the United States Polo Association.
context_section_description: He was born on November 17, 1896 to Anita (née Berwind) Strawbridge (1875–1942), and Robert E. Strawbridge, former president of the Strawbridge & Clothier department store in Philadelphia.  His sister was Anita Strawbridge (wife of Lt. Cmdr. Hon. Theodore P. Grosvenor).
  His paternal grandfather was Justus Clayton Strawbridge, who founded Strawbridge & Clothier in 1868. His maternal grandfather was Charles Frederick Berwind, founder of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. His aunt, Frederica, was the wife of banker Henry Herman Harjes, J.P. Morgan's partner in France.  His two other maternal aunts were Gertrude, Baroness Boecklin, and Edith, Baroness Von Kleist. From his great aunt Julia Berwind, he received a legacy of $170,000.
  He attended Harvard University from 1915 to 1917.
caption: Portrait of Robert's sister, Anita Strawbridge Grosvenor, by Philip de László, 1931.
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