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Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe, Lady Hudson (died 29 July 1963) was born as Mary Elizabeth Milner, the daughter of Robert Milner, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England.
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Mary Elizabeth Milner married, firstly, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st and last Viscount Northcliffe (born 16 July 1865, Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland – died 14 August 1922) on 11 April 1888, at which time her married name became Harmsworth, and she was styled as Baroness Northcliffe, effective 27 December 1905. The westernmost tip of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic was named in her honour by an expedition financed by her husband. She was later elevated to Viscountess Northcliffe on 14 January 1918. This union was childless. A widow, she remarried, on 4 April 1923, to Sir Robert Arundal Hudson; this union was also childless.
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Death
Lady Hudson died on 29 July 1963.