Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England
Date of Birth: 3 November, 1949
Ethnicity: English, Scottish, distant Dutch, remote French Huguenot
Anna Wintour is an English fashion journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of American Vogue. She was born in London, England, to Eleanor Trego (Baker), who was American, and Charles Vere Wintour, a newspaper editor. Both of her parents had English and Scottish ancestry. Her mother also had distant Dutch and remote French Huguenot roots.
Anna’s paternal grandparents were Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour (the son of The Rev. Fitzgerald Thomas Wintour and Isabel Milnes Gaskell) and Alice Jane Blanche Foster (the daughter of John Frederic Foster and Caroline Bagshawe). Late 18th century novelist Lady Elizabeth Foster, Duchess of Devonshire, was Anna’s great-great-great-grandmother, and Sir Augustus Vere Foster, the last Baronet of that name, was a grand-uncle.
Anna’s maternal grandparents were Ralph Jackson Baker (the son of James Eugene Baker and Mary Emma McIntire) and Anna Elizabeth Gilkyson (the daughter of Hamilton Henry Gilkyson and Nellie Henry Trego). Ralph was a Harvard Law professor. Hamilton was a merchant from Pennsylvania. The “Trego” surname goes back to a French Huguenot immigrant of the 1600s, Peter Trego.
Source: Genealogy of Anna Wintour – http://www.geni.com
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