Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe
Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe, Lady Hudson GBE, DStJ, ARRC (died 29 July 1963) was born as Mary Elizabeth Milner, the daughter of Robert Milner, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.
Marriages
Mary Elizabeth Milner married, firstly, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st and last Viscount Northcliffe (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. A widow, she remarried, on 4 April 1923, to Sir Robert Arundal Hudson; this union was also childless.
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
Death
Lady Hudson died on 29 July 1963.
Sources
- L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884–1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 207
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 3, page 3410
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3410