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Original run July 15, 1968 (1968-07-15) – August 19, 2013 (2013-08-19) Address Llanfair1177 Regency DriveLlanview, Pennsylvania 19100 First appearance Episode 1, July 15, 1968 (One Life to Live), Episode 12,503, February 24, 2012 (General Hospital) Last appearance Episode 12,772, March 20, 2013 (General Hospital), Episode 11,196, August 19, 2013 (One Life to Live) Similar | ||
The Lord family is an original family of fictional characters from the American soap opera One Life to Live. They are introduced at the show's ABC debut episode July 15, 1968, and featured for the entirety of its canon until the show's final episode released August 19, 2013.
Contents
- Ancestors
- First generation
- Second generation
- Third generation
- Fourth generation
- Fifth generation
- Introduction
- Lord Enterprises Inc
- Companies
- Employees and estate trustees
- References
Created by Agnes Nixon, over 40 years of melodrama surrounding the lives and family of wealthy media mogul Victor Lord and his heiress daughter Victoria Lord establish the ensemble of characters as a central fixture throughout the serial. The family primarily resides in fictional Llanview, Pennsylvania, owning communications business Lord Enterprises and its flagship publication, The Banner newspaper.
Ancestors
Lived in the late 1800s in the Old West as of 1988. Paternal grandfather of Victor Lord, Gwendolyn Lord, and Clayton-Powell Lord.
First generation
Original character. Born off-screen September 12, 1916, dies onscreen June 16, 1976. Death revised onscreen to March 4, 2003.
Born pre-1916. Sister of Victor Lord.
Born post-1916. Brother of Victor Lord.
Second generation
Original character. Born off-screen August 14, 1946 to Victor Lord and Eugenia Randolph Lord as of 1968.
Original character. Born off-screen December 1, 1950 to Victor Lord and Eugenia Randolph Lord as of 1968; dies onscreen August 8, 1973.
Born off-screen in 1945 to Victor Lord and Dorothy Randolph as of 1975; presumed dead September 18, 1983.
Born off-screen in the early 1950s to Gwendolyn Lord Abbott and Jonathan Abbott as of 1978.
Born off-screen March 14, 1962 to Victor Lord and Irene Manning Lord as of 1985.
Born off-screen January 2, 1970 to Victor Lord and Irene Manning as of 1995; birthday changed to April 29, 1968 as of 2013. Identical twin of Victor Lord, Jr.
Born off-screen to Clayton-Powell Lord, Sr. and Margaret Lord as of 1993.
Born off-screen January 2, 1970 to Victor Lord and Irene Manning as of 2011; birthday changed to April 29, 1968 as of 2013. Identical twin of Todd Manning.
Third generation
Born onscreen November 17, 1971 to Meredith Lord Wolek and Larry Wolek; birth year changed to 1966 as of 1983.
Born off-screen in 1967 Tony Lord and Pat Ashley, adopted by Paul Kendall as of 1975; dies onscreen April 27, 1978.
Born onscreen September 12, 1976 to Victoria Lord Riley and Joe Riley, adopted by Clint Buchanan; birth year changed to 1970 as of 1996.
Born onscreen January 8, 1980 to Victoria Lord Riley and Joe Riley, adopted by Clint Buchanan; birth year changed to 1975 as of 1993.
Born onscreen September 23, 1986 to Victoria Lord Buchanan and Clint Buchanan; birth year changed to 1978 as of 2005. Fraternal twin of Natalie Buchanan.
Born onscreen April 3, 1987 to Tina Lord Roberts and Cord Roberts; birthday changed to 1981 as 2007.
Born off-screen December 25, 1963 to Victoria Lord Gordon and Roger Gordon; dies onscreen February 7, 1992.
Born off-screen around 1970 to Clayton-Powell Lord II and Patricia Lord as of 1993; dies onscreen May 19, 2009.
Born onscreen February 6, 1991 to Tina Lord Roberts and Cord Roberts; birthday changed to 1985 as of 2007.
Born onscreen January 8, 1996 to Todd Manning and Blair Cramer Manning; birth year changed to 1992 as of 1998.
Born off-screen September 23, 1986 to Victoria Lord Buchanan and Clint Buchanan; birth year 1978 as of 2005. Fraternal twin of Jessica Buchanan.
Born onscreen October 11, 2001 to Todd Manning and Blair Cramer Manning; birth year changed to 1997 as of 2011.
Born onscreen February 5, 2006 to Trevor St. John's Todd Manning (retconned to Victor Lord, Jr. in 2011) and Margaret Cochran, adopted by Blair Cramer; birth year changed to 2004 as of 2010.
Born off-screen in 2002 to Todd Manning and Téa Delgado; birth year October 20, 1995 as of 2009
Fourth generation
Born onscreen June 29, 1992 to Kevin Buchanan and LeeAnn Demerest Buchanan; birth year changed to 1986 as of 2004, dies onscreen May 12, 2006.
Born onscreen May 1, 2006 to Jessica Buchanan Brennan and Nash Brennan.
Born onscreen November 6, 2008 to Starr Manning and Cole Thornhart; presumed dead in General Hospital crossover February 28, 2012.
Born onscreen January 11, 2011 to Jessica Buchanan and Robert Ford as of 2011.
Born onscreen January 11, 2011 to Natalie Buchanan and John McBain as of 2011.
Fifth generation
Born onscreen October 31, 2006 to Duke Buchanan and Kelly Cramer.
Introduction
At the show's debut in July 1968, patriarch Victor Dalby Lord is introduced as the wealthy publisher of the regional newspaper, The Banner, in the fictional Philadelphia Main Line town of Llanview, Pennsylvania, and owner of media conglomerate Lord Enterprises. Victor lives at his ancestral, 18th-century country estate named Llanfair with his daughters Victoria (nicknamed "Viki") and Meredith. Victor's wife and Victoria and Meredith's mother, Eugenia Randolph Lord, dies while giving birth to Meredith. With no son to succeed him, Victor concentrates on grooming elder Viki strictly, with her position as legal heiress to his fortune. As a result of this lifelong pressure, Viki, newly arrived from college, allows herself little time for romantic entanglements, focusing her energy on her inherited media career and her father's approval. Conversely, frail and emotional, yet free-spirited Meredith, all but overlooked by Victor, sought escape from his oppression and the future he had laid out for his daughters.
Lord Enterprises, Inc.
Lord Enterprises, Inc. are the legacy media assets of Victor Lord, including The Banner daily newspaper, WVL/WVLE-TV, WVLE radio, and life interest of the Llanfair estate. Victor's heiress daughter, Victoria, inherits publishing rights to the Banner newspaper as a part of Victor's initial will in 1976. Dorian Cramer Lord is initially bequeathed the landed Llanfair estate and part-ownership of WVL/WVLE-TV, WVLE radio, and The Banner; Viki purchases Dorian's stake in the newspaper soon after Victor's death. Victor's nephew Richard Abbott is appointed head of the European bureau of The Banner in 1979 by Viki's then-husband Joe Riley. The landed estate and majority ownership of the broadcast media outlets revert to Victoria in 1982 due to a codicil stipulating Llanfair and legacy assets return to the legal biological Lord heir (1976) if Victor's spouse remarries, which Dorian does at Llanfair with attorney Herb Callison that year. Dorian continues to live at Llanfair until she is forcibly removed by Viki's new husband, Clint Buchanan later that year. Tina Lord (formerly Tina Clayton) gains rightful access to the estate when Victor reveals her paternity to him in a letter during The Banner newspaper's 50th anniversary celebrations in 1985. Richard briefly takes over the company when Viki suffers a recurrent bout with her mental illness in 1986. Todd Manning is revealed to be Victor's illegitimate son and rightful male heir in 1995, gaining him partial ownership of WVLE radio, access to Llanfair, and an inherited trust of $30 million.
The Sun tabloid newspaper (formerly Dorian's The Intruder) is bought and edited by Todd Manning with millions of dollars in inheritance bequeathed to him at the revelation of his paternity to Victor in 1995; Todd's twin brother, Victor Lord, Jr., assumes ownership of Todd's assets (under his brother's identity) from 2003 until Victor, Jr.'s apparent death in 2011. Victor, Jr.'s assets are betrothed to Irene Manning as part of Victor, Jr.'s will, access which then reverts to legal heiress Tina at Irene's death in October 2011. Later in court proceedings, Tina relinquishes control of Todd's assets, returning them to Todd. Concurrently in October 2011, Jack Manning is named executive assistant and editor for The Sun by Victor, Jr., a position he keeps when Todd returns to work for the company. Jessica Buchanan reports for both her grandfather and mother's newspaper, The Banner, and her uncle's tabloid, The Sun, at various times in the 1990s and 2000s.
Todd founds subsidiary Manning Enterprises in June 2012, purchasing Port Charles publications Crimson magazine and The Port Charles Sun (formerly The Port Charles Press) newspaper. Upon the Todd's exit from Port Charles, his Port Charles acquisitions revert to their former names and prior ownerships.