page_title: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Margarita Armstrong (1867-1948), who married businessman Anthony J. Drexel in 1886 and divorced him in 1917. She had four children with Anthony Drexel: Anthony Joseph Drexel III, Margaretta Armstrong Drexel, John Armstrong Drexel (1891-1958), and Louis Clapier Norris Drexel
context_page_description: Anthony Joseph "Tony" Drexel Jr. was an American banker and philanthropist who was a close friend of King Edward VII.
context_section_description: On September 14, 1886, he married Margarita "Rita" Armstrong (1867-1948), a daughter of John Armstrong of the Baltimore Armstrongs.  Together, they had:
  Anthony Joseph Drexel III (1887–1946), who married Marjorie Gould (1891–1955), a daughter of Edith Kingdon and George Jay Gould.
  Margaretta Armstrong Drexel (1889-1952) who married Guy Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea (1885-1939), in 1910 and was the mother of Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea.
  John Armstrong Drexel (1891-1958), an aviation pioneer.
  Louis Clapier Norris Drexel (1896-1962)
  On May 25, 1917, Anthony and Margarita divorced after several years of separation and a bitterly contested trial. 
  Drexel died of uremic poisoning in 1934, aged 70, while staying in New York at the Hotel Ambassador.
caption: Photograph of Drexel's wife, Rita Armstrong Drexel, by Lallie Charles
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