Grew Perry, Alice de Vermandois, 1883-1959

Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965) was a diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Japan, undersecretary of state, and author. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Sturgis Grew, a wool merchant, and Annie Crawford Clark. He attended Groton School (1892-1898) and Harvard College (A.B. 1902). In 1905 he married Alice de Vermandois Perry and they eventually had four daughters. Alice was the daughter of Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845–1928, an American editor, academic, literary critic, literary translator, and literary historian. He was a member of the faculty at Harvard University, and Lilla Cabot, an American artist.