Harry Crosby

Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and publisher who for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England, a Boston Brahmin, and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew, the wife of financier J. P. Morgan, Jr.. As such, he was heir to a portion of a substantial family fortune. He was a volunteer in the American Field Service during World War I, and later served in the U.S. Ambulance Corps. He narrowly escaped with his life.

Profoundly affected by his experience in World War I, Crosby vowed to live life on his own terms and abandoned all pretense of living the expected life of a privileged Bostonian. He had his father's eye for women, and in 1920 met Mrs. Richard Peabody (née Mary Phelps Jacob), six years his senior. They had sex within two weeks, and their open affair was the source of scandal and gossip among blue-blood Boston.

Mary (or Polly as she was called) divorced her alcoholic husband and to her family's dismay married Crosby. Two days later they left for Europe, where they devoted themselves to art and poetry. Both enjoyed a decadent lifestyle, drinking, smoking opium regularly, traveling frequently, and having an open marriage. Crosby maintained a coterie of young ladies that he frequently bedded, and wrote and published poetry that dwelled on the symbolism of the sun and explored themes of death and suicide.

Harry Crosby (disambiguation)

Harry Crosby (1898–1929) was an American poet, founder Black Sun Press.

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Harry Crosby (businessman)

Harry Lillis Crosby III (born August 8, 1958) is an American investment banker.

Crosby was born in Hollywood, California, at Queen of Angels Hospital. He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, the eldest from Bing's second marriage to Kathryn Crosby (née Grandstaff). Harry is: the brother of Mary and Nathaniel Crosby; the half-brother of Gary, Dennis, Phillip and Lindsay Crosby; the half-uncle of Denise Crosby; the nephew of Bob Crosby and Larry Crosby.

Crosby has been in investment banking since 1985 and is a partner at Cranemere. He attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts from 1977-1980 and received an MBA at Fordham School of Business Administration.

Investment banking and private equity

Crosby has over three decades of experience in investment banking and managing a range of private equity relationships. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1987, working from associate level to Director.

In 1993, he became Managing Director of the Credit Suisse Financial Sponsors Group, where he established key relationships. He subsequently became Group Head and Managing Director of Merrill Lynch’s Financial Sponsors Group, where he managed clients such as KKR and Bain.