Edward Biddle III (1851-1933)

He was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and after attending private schools in the States, Paris, and Dresden, he began a banking career with Drexel & Co., retiring ten years later to study law. He was President of the Board of Trustees of the Western Home for Poor Children, New York; Treasurer of the Young Men's Institute; Treasurer of the Church Historical Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church; and, a member of the Rittenhouse Club. In his later years, he wrote extensively about art. Together with Mantle Fielding he published a life of the portraitist Thomas Sully, and in collaboration with Charles Henry Hart he wrote, "The Memoirs of Jean-Antoine Houdon". He was married twice and had six children. In 1872, he married Emilie, eldest daughter of the legendary financier Anthony Joseph Drexel, of Philadelphia, and they had three children. After she died, in 1889 he married Lilian, daughter of John Rose Lee, East India Merchant, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and they had a further three children.