Early Life and Family
St. George was born in Bridgnorth, England, in 1894, to American parents. Her family returned to the United States when she was two years of age. Her father, Hiram Price Collier, was a former Unitarian minister. Her mother, Catherine Delano Collier, was the younger sister of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. St. George's younger sister, Sara Collier, was named in their aunt's honor.
St. George married George Baker Bligh St. George, third son of the second Baronet St. George (see St George Baronets). Their daughter Priscilla St. George was wed to Angier Biddle Duke, an American diplomat, and an heir to the Duke tobacco empire.
St. George and her family resided briefly at 2144 Wyoming Avenue in Washington D.C. before relocating to Tuxedo Park, New York in June 1919, where she much later died at the age of eighty-eight, in 1983.
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