Sir Arthur Eric Courtney Drake (29 November 1910 – 31 October 1996) was an English oilman. Drake was the fifth chairman of the board of

British Petroleum BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas " supermajors" and one of ...

, serving from 1969 to 1975. Drake was born in Rochester, Kent, the son of a doctor, and educated at

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

, where he received a bachelor's degree in law. In 1975, Drake was succeeded by Sir David Steel as chairman of BP.

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