Kate Meyrick at the 43 Club with barman Hugo

Kate Evelyn Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene, pictured at the 43 with Hugo, the famous barman there. She ran "43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho, was prosecuted several times for breaching licensing laws and went to prison for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. Her book Secrets of the 43 was banned on its publication in 1933. Three of her daughters married peers of the realm

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