Henry Rice Guild (October 22, 1928 – April 22, 2019) was an American

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and director of the Pioneer Fund (1948–1974). According to the Pioneer Fund biography, he was a lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War I. He graduated Harvard College and

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. He practiced at Herrick Smith, Boston. Guild was a trustee of

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, a director Audubon Society, chair of the Greater Boston Community Fund, and chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare.

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Pioneer Fund Founders and Former Directors
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