Henry Clay Frick II was born on October 18, 1919 in New York City, the son of paleontologistChilds Frick (1883–1965) and his wife, Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953), and a grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).
In 1945, Frick married Jane Allison Coates (1924-1996),[3] a daughter of Winslow Shelby Coates, an attorney and conversationist who was primarily active on Long Island, New York, and Jane Coates (née Brush). George de Forest Brush was her maternal grandfather. Her paternal grandfather was from Worcestershire, England. They had five children;
Jane Allison Frick (1946-1978)
Elise Dixon Frick
Adelaide Frick, married to Jotham Allen Trafton, a son of Mr. & Mrs. Willis A. Trafton Jr., an attorney.[4]
His marriage ended in divorce around 1978. Around 1997, Frick remarried to Emily Troth du Pont (née Troth), who previously was married to Richard Simmons du Pont, a private investor of the Du Pont family, with whom she had two children, including Richard Dupont.
Frick died at the age of 87 on February 9, 2007 at his home in Alpine, New Jersey.