Flora Miller Biddle Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Flora Miller Biddle is an American philanthropist and socialite. She was born in 1928 in New York City. She is the daughter of the late philanthropist and financier, John J. Miller, and his wife, Flora Miller. Biddle attended the Brearley School in New York City and graduated from Vassar College in 1950. She is a member of the Junior League of New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Biddle is the widow of the late William S. Biddle, Jr., a former chairman of the board of the Philadelphia National Bank. She is the mother of four children, including the late William S. Biddle III, and the grandmother of seven. Biddle is a major philanthropist and has been involved in numerous charitable organizations, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Zoo, and the Philadelphia Ballet. She is also a major supporter of the arts, and has served on the boards of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Ballet. Biddle is a member of the exclusive Colony Club in New York City and the Union League of Philadelphia. She is also a member of the Philadelphia Country Club and the Merion Cricket Club.

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Her husband is Michael Henry Irving (m. 1947-1979) Sydney Francis Biddle

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She stepped down as president and chairman during the mid-1990s. Her daughter, Fiona Donovan, a Barnard College and Columbia University-trained art historian, served as trustee until 2003. Donovan was brought back to the board in 2014 by director Adam D. Weinberg. Biddle's granddaughters, fifth-generation members of the Whitney family, Flora Donovan and Flora Irving, were also made trustees of the Whitney in the same year.

She divorced Irving in 1979 and married Sydney Francis Biddle (1918-2004), a lawyer turned artist trained at Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Biddle was a member of the Biddle family of Philadelphia and a nephew of Francis Biddle, who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and the main American judge during the Nuremberg trials.

Biddle obtained her degree from Manhattanville College in 1978. From 1980 to 1990, she served on the New York City Art Commission.

She became a museum trustee in 1958 and president of the Whitney in 1977. During her tenure as president of the Whitney Museum, she worked closely with director Thomas N. Armstrong III to expand the museum's modern art collection and was responsible for the fundraising. Biddle once rode in the trunk of a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant on Madison Avenue in a nationally publicized stunt to help acquire Cirque Calder into the museum's permanent collection. She also oversaw the moving of the museum into the Marcel Breuer-designed structure on 945 Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side.

She attended Barnard College but dropped out in 1947 to marry Michael Henry Irving (1923-2003), a Harvard graduate who served in the Navy. He later received a degree from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and became an architect. Irving was the son of Carolyn Mann Irving (1891-1987) and Evelyn duPont Irving (1886-1968), a nephew of Washington Irving and descendant of Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, founder of the DuPont company. They married in June 1947 and had four children.

Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928) is an American author, honorary chairman, and former president of the Whitney Museum of American Art, serving from 1977 to 1995. She is the granddaughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum.