Background
Kate Nason was born in Kingstown. Her father was a doctor, as was her husband, Doctor F. R. Meyrick, who abandoned her after eight children.
Kate Nason was born in Kingstown. Her father was a doctor, as was her husband, Doctor F. R. Meyrick, who abandoned her after eight children.
He was reported to have shown up at her funeral, inconsolable. She became a London club hostess and proprietor of the notorious 43 Club at 43 Gerrard Street, Soho, London, an address also once the home of poet John Dryden. She went to prison on five occasions, and was sentenced to 15 months in 1929 for bribing a police officer, George Goddard.
Her daughter Mary married the 14th Earl of Kinnoull.