Mary Mond later Pearson
| Miss; Lady Mary Mond later Pearson | |||||||
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| Born | 1901 | ||||||
| Died | 1937 | ||||||
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Melchet Court, Romsey, Hants 35 Lowndes Square, SW1 [1921] 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, NW1 [1923] | ||||||
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1920.10.16 proposed by F.R. Barton, seconded by C.G. Seligman
Lady Neville Pearson
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Baronet (13 February 1898 – 6 November 1982) was a British newspaper publisher.
Born in Frensham, Surrey, he was the son of the British newspaper magnate Sir C. Arthur and Dame Ethel (Fraser) Pearson. His father, who was blind and a journalist, died in 1921, whereupon he succeeded to the baronetage. He succeeded his father as publisher of a number of magazines. From 1923 to 1953 his private secretary at the Newnes Publishing Company in London was the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith.
He was married in 1922 to Hon. Mary Angela Mond, daughter of the Minister of Health Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett.[1] In 1928[2] he married the actress Gladys Cooper, but divorced her in 1936.
In 1947 he succeeded his mother as president of St Dunstan's Hostel for the Blind, the home for blinded soldiers from World War I which his father, who was blind himself, had founded in 1915.[3]
He died on 6 November 1982, aged 84. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct.[4]
Hon. Mary Angela Mond was born on 20 June 1901.2 She was the daughter of Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett and Violet Florence Mabel Goetze.3,4 She married, firstly, Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Bt., son of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Bt. and Ethel Maud Fraser, on 29 March 1922.2 She and Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Bt. were divorced in 1928.2 She married, secondly, Lt.-Col. Clifford Willoughby Peter Hordern, son of Peter Hordern and Edith Charlotte Fearon, on 14 June 1928.1 She died on 29 October 1937 at age 36.2
From 29 March 1922, her married name became Pearson.1 From 14 June 1928, her married name became Hordern.1
