Anthony Joseph Drexel III (October 19, 1887 – February 23, 1946) was an American banker and aviator.

[14] At the age of nine, his parents took him to England where he was educated at Farnborough and Eton College, which he attended for three and a half years.

His father was a close friend of both King Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

[21] In 1921, the Merchants Trust Company of Waterbury, Connecticut sued Liggett for endorsing bankrupt notes.

After the War, he served as vice president of the Standard Film Industries Corporation in New York.

[28][29] When World War II broke out, Drexel and his wife were at their home in suburban Paris, and were forced to flee to their villa in Biarritz, and then to Portugal, where the boarded a ship to America.

Drexel's boxing match with the bridegroom's brother, Seton Beresford, "aroused considerable comment.

1967), an actress, a Herrick-prize-winning playwright, and an Emmy-nominated writer for the children's animated television program, Arthur.