Pierre Lorillard, of the tobacco fortune, was the first American ever to win the English Derby (with "Iroquois", entered in the race through the courtesy of the Prince of Wales).
In the early 1880s Lorillard helped make Newport, Rhode Island, a yachting center with his schooner Vesta and a steam yacht Radha. He owned a summer estate in Newport called "The Breakers", which he sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1885 in order to use his newly developed estate, the Tuxedo Club, at what became known as Tuxedo Park in Orange County, New York. Lorillard had inherited 13,000 acres around Tuxedo Lake, which he developed in conjunction with William Waldorf Astor and other wealthy associates into a luxury retreat. Find a Grave
