Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 5509 4383
https://isni.org/isni/0000000055094383
Name: 
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr (American philanthropist)
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr (Amerikaans officier (1874-1948))
Biddle, A. J. Drexel
Biddle, Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel
Энтони Джозеф Дрексель-Биддл-старший
Dates: 
1874-1948
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Language material
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author
Related names: 
Griffin, Stephen
United States. Marine Corps (isAffiliatedWith)
Titles: 
Madeira Islands, The
Shantytown sketches, 1898, c1897:
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(Anthony Joseph Drexel)
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (1874-1948) was an eccentric millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis He was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based. He trained men in hand-to-hand combat in both World War I and World War II, was a fellow of the American Geographical Society and founded a movement called "Athletic Christianity" that eventually attracted 300,000 members around the world. A 1955 Sports Illustrated article called him "boxing's greatest amateur" as well as a "major factor in the re-establishment of boxing as a legal and, at that time, estimable sport."
Associated Group: United States. Marine Corps naf
Boxing
Fuller form of personal name: Anthony Joseph Drexel
LC in RLIN, 3/18/94 (hdg: Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 1874-1948; usage: A.J. Drexel Biddle)
Shantytown sketches, 1898, c1897 t.p. (Anthony J. Drexel Biddle)
Wikipedia, June 8, 2017 (Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr.; Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I (1874-1948) was an eccentric millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis; he was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based; he was born on October 1, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died May 27, 1948 (aged 73) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; an officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; a keen boxer, Biddle sparred with Jack Johnson and taught boxing to Gene Tunney; he even hosted "boxing teas" in his home, where other boxers would spar a couple of rounds with him and then join the family for dinner)
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