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Helen Beresford, Baroness Decies

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Catherine Moya de la Poer Beresford (1913–1967) who married Patrick Herbert Bellew in 1936. They divorced and she married Max Wilhelm Johannsen in 1946.
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Helen Vivien Gould was born on May 2, 1893, in the United States. She was the fourth of seven children born to
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She died in February 1931 of jaundice and a heart attack in London. After her death, Lord Decies married
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Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford (1912-?) who married Robert Alfred O'Brien
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery
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Index

The Right Honourable

London
John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
George Jay Gould
Edith Kingdon
Jay Gould
socialite
philanthropist
Jay Gould
George Jay Gould
Edith Kingdon
Kingdon Gould I
Marjorie Gwynne Gould
Jay Gould II
Edith Catherine Gould
Gloria Gould
Jay Gould
robber barons
Gilded Age
née
John Graham Hope de la Poer Horsley Beresford
Baron Decies
Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford
Baron Decies
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
Joseph William Drexel


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