Francis Alexander Shields
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Francis Alexander Shields Jr. (May 16, 1941 – April 25, 2003) was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York City.<ref name="obituary" /><ref name="NYTObitPrincess" /> He was the father of actress Brooke Shields.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Early life
Shields was born in New York City.<ref name="obituary" /> He was the eldest son of Francis Xavier Alexander Sr., a top-ranking American tennis player and Davis Cup winner, and Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi.<ref name="NYTObitPrincess">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="obituary" /> After his parents' divorce, his father married Katharine Mortimer in 1949.<ref name="NYTObit1">Template:Cite news</ref>
He attended the Buckley School in Manhattan and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.<ref name="obituary" /> He attended in the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name="obituary" /> While at Penn, he captained the crew that rowed in the Henley Royal Regatta in 1962 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall.<ref name=":1" />
Career
Shields began his career with Wall Street brokerage Loeb Rhoades.<ref name="obituary" /> He then worked in sales and marketing for cosmetics firms Revlon and Estee Lauder.<ref name="obituary" /> He also worked for Handy Associates, an executive recruiting firm in New York City.<ref name="obituary" />
He formed his own real estate firm, Frank Shields Associates, in Palm Beach, Florida in 1989.<ref name="obituary" />
Personal life
In 1964, Shields married Maria Theresia "Teri" Schmon.<ref name=":0" /> They had a daughter, Brooke Christa Shields in 1965.<ref name=":0" /> They divorced when their daughter was five months old.<ref>"Brooke Shields's Mother, Teri Shields, Dies at 79" Template:Webarchive. People. November 6, 2012.</ref><ref name=":0" />
In 1970, he married Diana "Didi" Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss<ref name="DavilaJr">Template:Cite news</ref> (son of Hugh D. Auchincloss). They had three daughters: Marina Torlonia Shields, Olympia Torlonia Shields, and Christina Torlonia Shields.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
An avid hunter and fisherman, Shields spent much of his free time at Canoe Creek, at a camp he owned in rural west Florida.<ref name="obituary">Template:Cite web</ref>
He was a longtime member of The Brook, The Bath and Tennis Club in Palm Beach, Florida, Piping Rock Club, and The Racquet and Tennis Club.<ref name="obituary" />
In 1980, Shields founded the Power Ten, a New York nonprofit organization supporting youth rowing and making contributions to the U.S. National rowing team and U.S. Olympic rowing team through the National Rowing Foundation and Row New York.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2003, Shields died in Palm Beach, of a "protracted illness" at the age of 61.<ref name="obituary" /> After his death, the National Rowing Foundation offered the Frank Shields Fellowships.<ref name=":1" />