Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe


Mary Elizabeth Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe, , later Lady Hudson, was the daughter of Robert Milner, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.

Marriages

Mary Elizabeth Milner married, firstly, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth 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 weigh heavily on her and her husband. Six months after her husband's death, she remarried, on 4 April 1923, to Sir Robert Arundal Hudson.

Death

Lady Hudson died in Virginia Water, Surrey, aged 95.

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