John Griffin Richardson Rountree

Councilor
H.E. Chev. John Griffin Richardson Rountree, GCTJ

Mr. Rountree, the son of Otis J. and Harriet Griffin Rountree, was born in Ocala, Florida. He was educated at The Bolles School and attended the Ringling School of Art and Design. He was awarded the honor of Accademico Corrispondento by L'Accademia Tiberina, Rome, Italy, in 1970.

Following a fourteen-year career in Washington, D. C. as an association management executive and publisher, he retired to his native state of Florida where he actively pursues his interest in genealogy and American history.

Mr. Rountree is one of the early members of the Order in the United States, having been invested by the former Grand Prior, H.E. Chev. Gordon Malvern Fair Stick, GCTJ in 1973 at Guilford House, the residence of the Grand Prior in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the founding Prior of the Priory of St. King Charles the Martyr of Washington, D.C., and served as a former Member of the Grand Council.

Memberships
* Order of the Crown In America
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founding Member)
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent
* Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta (life member)
* The Military Order of the Crusades (life member)
* Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter, Windsor Castle (life
   member)
* The Jamestowne Society
* The Welcome Society
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
* General Society of Colonial Wars (life member and former Gentleman of
   the Council, District of Columbia Society)
* Presidential Families of America (former 2^nd Vice President, life member, recipient
   of the Distinguished Service Award)
* General Society Sons of the Revolution (life member, District of Columbia
   Society)
* National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (former Librarian
   General)
* General Society of the War of 1812 (Vice President General, Florida
   Society)
* Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States (life member, Florida
   Society)
* Order of Indian Wars of the United States (Life Companion)
* Sons of Confederate Veterans
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
* Military Order of the Stars and Bars
* National Huguenot Society (life member, District of Columbia Society)
* National Society of Sons of the American Colonists (former Archivist
   General, life member)
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of the Loyalist & Patriots of the
   American Revolution (former Librarian General, charter member, hon.)
* First Families of Georgia 1733-1797
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
* Order of Scions of Colonial Cavaliers 1640-1660 (former Marshal, Founder
   Member)
* Founding Families of the State of South Carolina

* The Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America
   (Vice President, Member of the Advisory Council)

The Hereditary Register of the United States of America, President, General Editor and Chairman of the Advisory Committee - 1972, 1973, 1974. Recipient 1^st Place Award for Hard Bound Volumes, The Printing Industries of the Virginias, 1972, 1973.

Other Notes
Mr. Rountree belongs to various social and professional organizations, and is a Perpetual Member of Ashlar Lodge No. 48 F&AM. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Parish in St. Augustine, Florida and is a former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the St. Augustine Yacht Club.

Listed In
Marquis Who's Who In America
The Social Index (Palm Beach, Florida)
The Social List of Washington, D.C. (through 1976)
The Blue Book of Washington, D.C. (through 1976)