Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe
Mary Elizabeth Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe, GBE, DStJ, ARRC (née Milner; 22 December , later Lady Hudson, was the daughter of Robert Milner, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.[1][2]
Marriages[]
Mary Elizabeth Milner married, firstly, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (born 16 July 1865, Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland – died 14 August 1922) on 11 April 1888, at which time her married name became Harmsworth, and she was styled as Baroness Northcliffe, effective 27 December 1905. The westernmost tip of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic was named in her honour by an expedition financed by her husband. She was later elevated to Viscountess Northcliffe on 14 January 1918. This union was childless, which weighed heavily on her and her husband. Six months after her husband's death, she remarried, on 4 April 1923, to Sir Robert Arundell Hudson.[2]
Death[]
Lady Hudson died in Virginia Water, Surrey, aged 95.[2]
Awards and honors[]
- Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) — 1918
- Registered as an Associate Royal Red Cross (ARRC) — 1919
- Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem — 1919
Sources[]
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3410. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
- ^ a b c "Lady Hudson". The Times. 31 July 1963. p. 12.
- 1867 births
- 1963 deaths
- British viscountesses
- Dames of Grace of the Order of St John
- Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- Harmsworth family
- People from Kidlington
- Associate Members of the Royal Red Cross