Ralph "Ray" Hornblower III (born March 17, 1948) is chairman of Hornblower & Company, LLC, an investment firm specializing in early stage companies in the biomedical, alternative energy, health care, and transportation/logistics sectors.Hornblower & Company
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Early life

Hornblower was born on March 17, 1948. He was the son of Ralph Hornblower Jr. and Priscilla (

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Blumer) Hornblower. He is the great-grandson of Henry Hornblower, the founder of

Hornblower & Weeks Hornblower & Weeks was an investment banking and brokerage firm founded by Henry Hornblower and John W. Weeks in 1888. At its peak in the late 1970s, Hornblower ranked eighth among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange in number of retail ...

. His grandfather and father were in their turn partners in that firm. Although the present firm of Hornblower & Company is not a descendant firm, the right to the name Hornblower passed, by the original Hornblower & Weeks partnership agreement, to Ralph Hornblower, thence to Ralph, Jr., and to Ralph III. Hornblower graduated in 1970 from

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where he was elected to the Owl Club. Hornblower was a left halfback for the Crimson football team, and earned designation as an All-

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second team member in 1968. Hornblower played in the Harvard wins 29-29 contest versus Yale. Hornblower obtained a law degree in 1974 from the

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Career

Following his graduation from law school, Hornblower joined the U.S.

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in 1974, first working as a trial attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department's Civil Rights Division. Subsequently, in the post-

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period under Attorneys General

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and

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, he was assigned to oversee all matters of ethics and professional responsibility in the Justice Department.

Opera singer

Leaving the Justice Department in 1980, and after spending one year in private practice, Hornblower began a second career as a professional concert and opera singer by spending six years in Paris and while overseas was house tenor for the

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. As a tenor, he performed principal roles in

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and

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

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in Costa Mesa, California and at opera festivals in

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, France, and

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, England. Hornblower was a member of the board of overseers of

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, the living history museum in Plymouth, Mass., that was founded by his uncle, Henry Hornblower II.

Personal life

Between 1969 and 2000, Hornblower was married to

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(b. 1950), great-granddaughter of U.S. president

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. They divorced in 2000, and had two sons. In 2004, he married Cynthia Morgan Edmunds, executive editor of Bride's magazine. They have one daughter.

References

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