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Drexel and Henry Symes Lehr at their wedding in 1901 Drexel's first husband, John V. Dahlgren, c. 1897 Drexel in 1899. Drexel was born on April 22, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Lucy Wharton and Joseph William Drexel. [2]
Henry Symes Lehr in drag for an amateur theatrical performance. Henry Symes Lehr was born on March 28, 1869. He was the fourth child in a family of seven born to Mary Frances Moore Lehr, and Robert Oliver Lehr, a tobacco and snuff importer who became the German consul in Baltimore and a governor of the Maryland Club. [1]
Lady Decies died on 3 February 1931, [24] [25] and following her death he married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, the daughter of Joseph William Drexel, on 25 May 1936. Elizabeth had previously been married to Harry Lehr and John Vinton Dahlgren. [26] Lord Decies filed suit for divorce in 1942, which Lady Decies contested. [27]
Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies (née Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, previously Lehr) on 25 May 1936 [509] Princess Serge Wolkonsky (née Mary Walker Fearn, previously French) [510] on 8 July 1936 [511] Sallie Ponsonby, Baroness Sysonby (née Sallie Whitney Sanford) on 2 October 1936 [512]
After her death in 1931, [11] he married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (widow of Harry Lehr) [12] in 1936. [13] Hon. Seton Robert de la Poer Horsley Beresford (1868–1928), who married actress Delia Dorothy O'Sullivan, a daughter of Daniel John O'Sullivan, in 1899.
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (1868–1944), [22] who married John Vinton Dahlgren (1869–1899), another son of John A. Dahlgren, in 1889, with whom she had one son. [ 12 ] [ 23 ] After his death, she married New York Society leader Harry Lehr (1869–1929). [ 24 ]
After his mother's death in 1931, [3] his father married another American heiress, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (widow of society leader Harry Lehr), [4] in 1936. [ 5 ] His paternal grandparents were William Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies and the former Catherine Anne Dent.
His paternal grandfather was John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, [5] an Irish representative peer who married two American heiresses, his grandmother Helen Gould (daughter of American railroad executive George Jay Gould I), [6] [7] [8] and after her death, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel (a daughter of Joseph William Drexel, who had previously been ...