Richard Stephen Austin, a native of Blacksburg, Virginia, is the son of Vernon Childrey and Hattie Wiggins Austin. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a B.S. in Biology. LTC Austin is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, and enjoyed a career with the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Labor, as an acquisition officer. He is married to Dorothy Rhea Cochran Austin. The Austins have one daughter, Patricia Louise Austin Ting.

Memberships

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England (Governor General)

• Order of the First Families of Connecticut (Treasurer General)

• Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America (Treasurer General)

• National Society of Sons of American Colonists (Deputy Governor General

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Librarian General)

• National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (District of Columbia Branch Governor)

• Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (former Registrar and Counselor of the Virginia and District of Columbia Societies)

Chivalric Orders

• Ordo Sancti Constantini Magni (Officer, KSM Bailie of the East

Notes

Mr. Austin is a former Senior Warden, Episcopal Church, Diocese of Virginia.

Carter Branham Snow Furr, Esq. was born and reared in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Carlton Harris Furr and Marion Carter Snow Furr. He was married to the former Caroline Ann Huffstutler of Birmingham, Alabama. They had one son Carter Branham Snow Furr, Jr. and three grandchildren.

Mr. Furr was educated in Norfolk public schools graduating from Maury High School. Thereafter he attended and graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1954 with a B. S. Degree Magna Cum Laude. Following college he attended and graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1957 with a J.D. Degree, at which time he was honored with membership in the Order of the Coif.

Mr. Furr began the practice of law in Norfolk, Virginia in 1958, specializing in maritime law. He was a partner in the firm of Jett, Berkley, Furr & Padgett until its merger in 1993 with the firm of McGuire Woods. After later retiring from McGuire Woods, he maintained a small solo practice in Norfolk. Mr. Furr was a thirty-year member of the United States Army Reserve, serving in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, retiring with the rank of Colonel.

Society Memberships

• Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5 (Honorary President for Life)

• Jamestowne Society (Governor)

• National Society Sons of the American Revolution (former Chancellor Virginia Society and former President of Norfolk Chapter)

• General Society of Colonial Wars (Gentleman of the Council, Virginia Society)

• Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Baronial Order of Magna Charta

• One Hundred Descendants of Blood Royal

• Military Order of the Crusades

Other Memberships

• Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Virginia

• Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States

• Permanent Member, U. S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference

• Virginia State Bar

• Virginia Bar Association

• Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association

• Maritime Law Association of the United States

• Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute

• Norfolk Historical Society, Board and past president

• Norfolk Preservation Alliance, vice-president

• Friends of Norfolk’s Historic Cemeteries, Board

• Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation, Board

• Norfolk German Club, past president

• Reserve Officers Association of the U. S., past president of Admiral Farragut Chapter

• Virginia Club, past president

• Elizabeth River Power Squadron, Law Officer

• Norfolk Yacht & Country Club

• Preservation Virginia

• Virginia Historical Society

• National Trust for Historic Preservation

• Civil War Preservation Trust

• Lifelong member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church of Norfolk, serving on the Vestry and as Senior Warden

• Former member of the Executive Board of the Diocese of Southern Virginia

Listed In

• Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

Russell Cecil Scott, a native of Richmond, Virginia, was the son of Frederic Robert Scott, II and Elizabeth Barnett Cecil. Mr. Scott attended St. Christopher’s School in Richmond. He completed his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, and his M.S. in Engineering at Princeton University. He was married to Anne Addison Scott, and has three children: Russell Cecil Scott, Jr., Helen MacLaren Scott, and William Norwood Scott.

Mr. Scott served on active duty in the Naval Reserve in World War II and the Korean War, and retired with the rank of Commander. He worked as an aerospace engineer in the development of guided missiles for Navy contractors for over twenty years and was later a lobbyist for non- profit conservation groups. Additionally, Mr. Scott served the Commonwealth of Virginia as an Associate Commissioner of Marine Resources and as chairman of the Virginia Boating Advisory Board.

Memberships

• Society of the Cincinnati

• Society of Colonial Wars (Honorary Governor General)

• Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5

• National Gavel Society

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founding Member)

• Order of the Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Member of the Council)

• Order of Founders and Patriots in America (Chaplain of the Virginia Society)

• General Society Sons of the Revolution (former member of the Council of the Virginia Society)

• Jamestowne Society

• Military Order of the Stars and Bars

Other Notes

Mr. Scott served for thirty-six years as an Operational Member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, conducting many successful search and rescue missions in tidewater Virginia. He was Commodore of the Virginia Yacht Club on two occasions, and piloted his own boats from Chesapeake Bay south to the sandy beaches of Florida and the Bahamas, and north to the rocky coast of Maine.

Additionally, Mr. Scott was an Honorary Trustee of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and served as a Director and Vice President of the James River Association, as well as a Director of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

Mr. Scott was a member the Commonwealth Club (Richmond), the Country Club of Virginia, the Richmond German, and the University Cottage Club (Princeton).

He served as Deacon, Elder, and Trustee of Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, as well as Trustee, Vice President, and President of Westminster Presbyterian Homes, Inc., a church- related corporation dedicated to developing continuing care communities (CCC) in Virginia. Mr. Scott also served as a trustee of Westminster Canterbury Richmond, the first of five similar CCC facilities.