Stuart S. Janney III

Stuart Symington Janney III (born August 31, 1948) is an American heir, lawyer, financier and horseman.
Early life
Stuart S. Janney III was born on August 31, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the son of Barbara Phipps (1911-1987) and Stuart Symington Janney Jr. (1907-1988), a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review who owned the prominent racehorses Ruffian and Private Terms. He has three sisters, Mrs. Rufus Williams, Mrs. William Trimble, and Mrs. Boykin Rose.
His maternal grandparents were Gladys Livingston Mills (1883-1970), a socialite, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who formed Wheatley Stable with her brother Ogden L. Mills in 1926 (children of Ruth née Livingston and Ogden Mills), and Henry Carnegie Phipps (1879-1953), sportsman and financier who was a son of Henry Phipps Jr., a partner in the Carnegie Steel Company. His paternal grandparents were Stuart Symington Janney (1874-1940) and Frances Moale (née Spencer) Janney (1882-1945).
He graduated from the Gilman School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later received his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.
Janney sits on the board of trustees of the Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Zoological Society.
Equine interests
In 1988, Janney inherited the family stable and decided to move the breeding operation from Glyndon, Maryland to Claiborne Farm, where Seth W. Hancock (b. 1949) could take care of it. and a daughter, Emily Janney,

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