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    Valerie Susan, Lady Meux (pronounced "Mews"; née Langdon; 1852–1910), was a Devon-born socialite of the Victorian era. She was the wife of Sir Henry Bruce...
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  • politician Meux baronets, people who held titles in two separate baronetcies Richard Meux Benson (1824–1915), English priest Valerie, Lady Meux (1847–1910)...
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    Portrait of Lady Meux is a name given to several full-length portraits by James McNeill Whistler. Valerie Susan Meux, née Langdon, (1847 – 1910) was a...
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  • politician, son of the above Henry Bruce Meux (1856–1900), British brewer, son of the above and husband of Valerie, Lady Meux This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    on 13 March 1900. It was against this background that Lambton met Valerie, Lady Meux, a beautiful socialite. After hearing the story of the naval guns...
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    social statement of a different kind was made during the 1880s by Valerie, Lady Meux, who defied London Society by driving herself in a high phaeton drawn...
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    The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1900. Valerie, Lady Meux, wife of the third Baronet, was a well-known socialite. After her...
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    as a public company in 1888. Henry Bruce Meux died childless in 1900, and his American wife, Valerie, Lady Meux, inherited his share of the brewery. She...
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  • including the story of Walter Herbert Ingram, Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet, and Valerie, Lady Meux. Ingram gifted an Ancient Egyptian mummy to the Meuxes...
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    commissioned James Whistler to paint three portraits of his wife, Valerie, Lady Meux. At Lady Meux's request, Henry purchased from the City of London the Temple...
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    Henry Meux, 1st Baronet (pronounced "Mews") (8 May 1770 – 7 April 1841) was a British brewer, owner of the London brewery which became the Meux Brewery...
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  • Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet (1856–1900), who married socialite Valerie Langdon in 1878. Sir Henry died on 1 January 1883. His widow, Lady Louisa, died...
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    rented to Sir Henry Meux, who stayed at The Cedars. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux inherited The Cedars from Valerie, Lady Meux. The grounds were...
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    700 stones carefully. In 1880 the brewer Henry Meux, at the instigation of his wife Valerie Susan Meux, bought the stones and re-erected the arch as the...
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    park were then acquired and the house extended by millionaire brewers the Meux family. London's Temple Bar Gate was preserved and stood in the park from...
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  • Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 237. "LADY MEUX DEAD, RICH PATRON OF ART; A Former Actress and Notable Woman Who Was Never...
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  • with some small success. However, progress in general was slow. Lady Valerie Meux bequeathed her collection of Ethiopian manuscripts to Emperor Menilek...
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    reported to have died in early 1906. Vedas was a brown horse bred by Valerie, Lady Meux and owned during his racing career by West Fenton de Wend-Fenton....
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    Whitney won England's Derby with Volodyovski, leased by him from Lady Valerie Meux. On October 24, 1903, the New York Times reported that W.C. Whitney...
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    blaze and a white sock on his left back foot, was owned and bred by Lady Valerie Meux who used the name "Mrs. Theobalds" for her racing interests. The colt...
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    thorns were returned to Emperor Yohannes IV in the 1870s. In 1902, Lady Valerie Meux bequeathed her collection of Ethiopian manuscripts to Emperor Menelik...
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    the crown of thorns, returned to Emperor Yohannes IV in the 1870s Lady Valerie Meux's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts were bequeathed in 1902 to Emperor...
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    Society of St. John the Evangelist ("Cowley Fathers") is founded by Richard Meux Benson at Cowley, the first stable Anglican religious order for men in England...
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    the First and Second Crusades. In 1189 the estate passed to Thomas de St Valerie, who, as a baron in the "extraordinarily difficult" position of holding...
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  • John Ian McLauchlan. For services to rugby and charity. Dr. Clive Julian Meux, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. For...
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