Kate Meyrick
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Kate Meyrick (1875–1933) was an Irish nightclub owner in 1920s London.
Kate Nason was born in Kingstown. Her father was a doctor, as was her husband, Dr. F. R. Meyrick, who abandoned her after eight children. He was reported to have shown up at her funeral, inconsolable.[1]
She became a London club hostess and proprietor of the notorious 43 Club at 43 Gerrard Street, Soho, London,[2] an address also once the home of poet John Dryden.[3] She went to prison on five occasions, and was sentenced to 15 months in 1929 for bribing a police officer, George Goddard.
Her daughter Mary married the 14th Earl of Kinnoull.
References
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- ↑ Chinatown London W1, History through the ages
- ↑ Link to Flikr image of plaque
- Fergus Linnane, "London: the Wicked City: A Thousand Years of Vice in the Capital", Robson, 2007, ISBN 1-86105-990-6, p. 322
- Kate Meyrick, "Secrets of the 43 Club", 1933, reprinted Parkgate Publ. 1994 ISBN 0-9523109-2-9
- Amy Gilman Srebnick, René Lévy, "Crime and culture: an historical perspective", Ashgate Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-7546-2383-1, p. 85
- Colin Watson, "Snobbery with Violence", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971, ISBN 0-413-28420-4, pp. 120,196
- Dictionary of National Biography
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