{{Short description|Predominantly American family originating in England}} {{other uses|Sedgwick (surname)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2026}} 175px|thumb The '''Sedgwick family''' is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics, law, business, and the arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-02-04-0702020456-story.html|title=Prominence, privilege and tragedy mark the Sedgwick family|website=Chicago Tribune|date=4 February 2007 }}</ref> The earliest known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire, who arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as part of the Great Migration.<ref>{{cite book |author=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |author-link=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |title=The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/historydescenda05dwiggoog/page/738/ |year=1874 |location=New York |publisher=J. F. Trow & Son |pages=735–739}}</ref> Sedgwick, Maine, was named in his honor.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9nEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NGcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3417%2C2283219 | title=Many Maine towns bear names of military men | work=Lewiston Evening Journal | date=Apr 20, 1949 | accessdate=17 October 2015 | author=Chadbourne, Ava H. | pages=A-2}}</ref> The Sedgwick Pie is the family's cemetery located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
==Family tree== ===Ancestors=== {{Tree list}} * Major General Robert Sedgwick (1611–1656) ** William Sedgwick ({{circa|1643}} – 1674) *** Samuel Sedgwick, Cpt. (born 1667) **** Benjamin Sedgwick, Deacon (1716–1757) ***** {{Tree list/final branch}}Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813) {{Tree list/end}}
===Main line=== {{Tree list}} * Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813), an American attorney, politician and jurist ** Elizabeth Mason Sedgwick (1775–1827) ** A child died at birth on March 27, 1777 ** Frances Pamela Sedgwick (1778–1842) ** Theodore Sedgwick Jr. (1780–1839) married to Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick ** Catherine Sedgwick (1782–1783) ** Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1784–1785) ** Henry Dwight Sedgwick I (1785–1831) *** Henry Dwight Sedgwick II (1824–1903) **** Jane Minot Sedgwick (1859–1918) **** Henry Dwight Sedgwick III (1861–1957), lawyer and author ***** Henry Dwight "Halla" Sedgwick IV (1896–1914) ***** Edith Minturn Sedgwick (1901–1901) ***** Robert Minturn "Duke" Sedgwick (1899–1976) ****** Henry Dwight Sedgwick V (1928–2018), married to Patricia Ann Rosenwald (1932–2003) and Helen Stern (1930–2019) *******Robert Sedgwick (born 1951){{citation needed|date=February 2020}} actor ******* Holly Sedgwick (born c. 1955) ********{{Tree list/final branch}} George Nozuka (born 1986) ********{{Tree list/final branch}} Philip Nozuka (born 1987) ********{{Tree list/final branch}} Justin Nozuka (born 1988) ******* Kyra Sedgwick (born 1965) actress, producer, and director. Married to Kevin Bacon ******** {{Tree list/final branch}} Sosie Bacon (born 1992), actress ******* Mike Stern (born Michael Sedgwick 1953), jazz guitarist ***** Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967) ******{{Tree list/final branch}} Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (1943–1971), model who worked with Andy Warhol **** Theodore Sedgwick (1863–1951) **** Alexander "Aleck" Sedgwick (1867–1929) **** Ellery Sedgwick (1872–1960) magazine editor ***** Ellery Sedgwick Jr. (1908–1991) ****** Theodore "Tod" Sedgwick, diplomat and publisher ** Robert Sedgwick (1787–1841) **Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) novelist ** Charles Sedgwick (1791–1856) {{Tree list/end}}
==Connected people== * William Ellery * Elizabeth Freeman, slave freed by Theodore Sedgwick * Edith Minturn Stokes, sister-in-law of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III * Dwight family * Henry deForest, maternal grandfather of Edie Sedgwick * Ephraim Williams * Eero Saarinen * Edmund Bacon (architect) * Peabody family * Andy Warhol
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