Kate Meyrick and family in 1909

Kate Evelyn Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933) pictured with her husband, Ferdinand, and three of her children, May, Dorothy and Harry. Meyrick was an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene. 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. May became the Countess of Kinnoull and Dorothy, Lady de Clifford

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