Kate Meyrick
Kate Meyrick (1875–1933) was an Irish night club owner in 1920s London.
Kate Nason was born in Kingstown. Her father was a doctor, as was her husband, who abandoned her after eight children. She became a London club hostess and proprietor of the notorious "43 Club" at 43 Gerrard Street, Soho, London[1] (an address also once the home of poet John Dryden[2]). She went to prison on five occasions, and was sentenced to 15 months in 1926 for bribing a police officer, George Goddard.
References
- Fergus Linnane, "London: the Wicked City: A Thousand Years of Vice in the Capital", Robson, 2007, ISBN 1861059906, p.322
- Kate Meyrick, "Secrets of the 43 Club", 1933, reprinted Parkgate Publ. 1994 ISBN 0952310929
- Amy Gilman Srebnick, René Lévy, "Crime and culture: an historical perspective", Ashgate Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0754623831, p.85
- Colin Watson, "Snobbery with Violence", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971, ISBN 0-413-28420-4, pp.120,196
- Dictionary of National Biography
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1875 |
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1933 |
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