Frederic B. Pratt

Frederic Bayley Pratt (22 February 1865 – 3 May 1945) was an American heir, the president of the board of trustees of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for 44 years, from 1893 to 1937, and president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1910.

Frederic Pratt was born in Brooklyn NY, the son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and his wife, Mary Helen Richardson.

He was brother to George Dupont Pratt, Herbert L. Pratt, John Teele Pratt and Harold I. Pratt; and half-brother to Charles Millard Pratt.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1887.

In 1893, he was elected president of the board of Pratt Institute, taking over from his elder brother, Charles Millard Pratt. Because Charles Pratt Sr died so soon after the college was founded, Frederic Pratt is ascribed with guiding the college through its early decades. He remained in this post for 44 years, when the title passed to his son Charles.

In 1910, he succeeded Caspar Whitney as president of the American Olympic Committee, now the United States Olympic Committee, but only served for five weeks, prior to Col Robert Means Thompson. In 1932, he was awarded the Brooklyn Heights Neighborhood Club Annual Award for distinguished service to the cultural and civic life of the borough.

On 17 October 1889, he married Caroline Ames Ladd (3 September 1861, Portland OR - 12 June 1946, Glen Cove), the daughter of William Ladd and Caroline Elliott.

They had three children:

The family estate in Glen Cove, Long Island, "Poplar Hill", designed by Charles A. Platt for Frederic Pratt, has been owned by Glengariff Healthcare Center since 1971.

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